rtsigterian Nanner. PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY, FEB, 17, 1864 !RE LATE REV. G. W. THOMPSON, D. D The death'of thiewidely-known and em inently useful minister of the Gospel, is mourned with great lamentation. We knew him, and loved him. Many . hours of delightful, intercourse have we bad with him. And with great interest have we listened to the gracious words which so of ten fell from his lips. He fell asleep in JESUS on the 28th of Jan., 1864. As many of our readers are anxious to knew the particulars connected with his eickness and death, we give the following - aceovint'from a correspondent who was of ten with him in his closing hours : '"Services preparatoly to a' communion season were commenced on the first of Jan- s nary. During the "Week of Prayer 'r it became evident that the Spirit of God was in our midst, and before the close of the week, the number of the inquirers had reach ed nearly one hundred. Rev. J. J. /TAMIL TON preached morning and evening, and Dr:THOMPSON %Bowed with words of ex hortation and Warning.. The communion, (Jan. 10th) was' unusually solemn. Mr. HAMILTON preached during the foll Owing week, until his strength was exhausted. Daring all `this time, -Dr. TgompsoN, in addition to his labors at the church, con versed with inquirers during the day at his Own - house—one-day with nearly forty. The following week Rev. W. P. COCHRAN assisted him. Dr. THOMPSON had an at tack of jaundice, but attended church, and labored there and at home as usual. He appeared to recover of jaundice in a few days, and when Mr. CoCEIRAN was obliged to return to his own charge, Dr. THOMP SON preached several nights. His last sermon was the ' Pharaoh Sermon,' preached Friday night, Jan. 22d. "During all the meetings he seemed es pecially burdened about unconverted church members. Nearly all.his remarks were di rented to them-. Night after night he urged and entreated even with tears, that ' those. who have a name to live and are dead,' would not continue-to live 'as the enemies of the cross of Christ.' Sometinies he seemed. almost in agony• for their souls On Saturday morning, Jan. 23d, he rode to Perryville with the writer of this article. On the way home he spoke of feeling very. unwell. In the evening he was unable to preach. On Sabbath morning his symp toms were so much worse, that we began-to fear, for his life.' Two physicians were in almosfeonstant attendance. We leoped and prayed that the Lord would be pleased to spare his life, but on Thursday forenoon it became evident that he could not recover. The physician told him gently and kindly, that be could not live much longer. He listened calmly, almost with a smile, till the physician ceased speaking, and then with perfect composure replied : 'The Lord's will be done.' Turning to his wife, he tenderly asked , : ' ` Mother, (he always called her mother) can yo.a say that r 114v arringed some business matters,: he gave his family an affectionate farewell. In the midst of tears we tried to commend him and his family to God. "About half an hour before he died, he said : 4 And what shall I say to my dear people ?• Put this inscription on my coffin : Remember the words which I spoke unto you while -I was yet with you." Some mo ments after, his wife asked him : Is your trust in Christ firm?' He replied: Oh, yes! and yet it is only a poor sinner's _hope.' He lay quiet a little while, and then asked us to sing the 90th hymn: ',‘ There is a fountßa filled with klood.' &c. Daring the singing of the hymn, a heav enly smile lit up his countenance, and thus he passed away, calmly, peacefully, to join in the song of Moses and the Lamb. His mind was clear to the last, his faith firm. Truly, he fell asleep in JTESITS. His work is done, his battle fought, his. victory won. What he did during his life, and how he did it, will be told, I trust, hereafter. The palm and the crown are his. May they be hours, too." • REFLECTIONS ON' RELIGIOUS JOURNALISM, The following is by a new contributor, from whom we expect frequent valuable favors of the kind now presented 10 our readers. He has an original way of " put ting" things, which cannot fail to please and instruct. MESSRS. EDITORS :—There is a sort of intrinsic charm .tacitly accredited in the popular mind to print. An Incident or onicumstance, which would arrest little or no attention stated in manuscript or told orally, assumes some value the very mo ment it is enshrined in printed characters. Our country people, those especially -of a opectacled age, treat printed matter with 'extraordinary reverence. This popular hom age led me a few days ago into a train of reflections upon the responsibilities, sacred, civil and social, connected with the success ful publication of a religious newspaper like the Banner, whose weekly editions penetrate in this Presbyterian region' to the farthest solitary retreat in the country. It would not be courteous, however, to offer any opeettlative counsel or criticisms at so early a period of your editorial career. I shall content myself now with some general reflections upon the Province 9f religious journalism. • It is wonderful how many men of pre tension Are really blanks in society—how many require daily a book or newspaper to furnish them- with ideas ! A felicitous paragraph will start the mental clooi-work of this class of pereons, and whilst it con tinues in motion they require, like the . o ttntaient Mariner, listeners, and accordingly will hasten from point to: point point among their neighbors, airing their borrowed opinions with an , expression of much pro fundity. A good newspaper has heoome indispensable to such Moll.—Eta necessary in fact as a brealaast of beefsteak and coffee, to qualify them for achieving a Clever, well spent day. Without- it their prestige , in the, community would noon suffer an eclipse. A good old gentleman of my ay. quaintance plumes himself_ upon a facti-, tious reputation he has gained for profound oracular wisdom., He walks with a cane, and discourses at the stores and post office upon orthodoxy and the Constitution as it is, employing an authoritative style of as sertion which brooks no controversy. By a mere accident, in connection with the temporary interruption of the mails, dis covered that he was wholly indebted to a transmontane religious journal fbr his sen timents. His mind is in truth nothing but an old mirror—a mirror that reflects for him with singular fidelity among admiring neighbors, the pseudo conservatism of -his favorite paper. So it often happens that men who - are destitute of-original powers of reflection may yet, by means of a news paper, wield an extensive influence in their several communities. How important, then, for the interests of society, that a sound and loyal religious paper should sup ply the simulated .originality of these would-be moulders of public sentiment. Some twenty years ago I preached a ser mon in the Western Penitentiary. I stood aloft at- one end- of the great middle hall, alpng which a solitary turnkey slowly walked to and fro, like a sentinel on duty, during the service. So far as the scene appeared to the eye, this official constituted my entire audience. I felt indeed unusual embarrassment at first, when the distant recesses of that vast bleak passage—whose walls were lined on either side with sombre balcony ranges, and checkered above and be low with long, gloomy-looking rows of barred apertures—returned something like echoes of derision to my declamation. n required some moments' reflection to assure me that my discourse was not a farcical soliloquy, and that I was really addressing a large though invisible audience. - The religious editor, in like mariner, speaks from his sanctum to a grant!, unseen auditory. He does not, like the pastor, behold before him a sweet landscape of sympathetic faces; nor is he reassured and refreshed like him in his work by a similar atmosphere of congenial saintly sentiment. His sphere of duty has nevertheless its ap propriate honors and recompense. His well-considered words of instruction are distributed afar off, and seriously pondered in thousands of quiet households, edifying the judgments of grey-beaded men by coun try firesides, and kindling in the breasts of thh meditative, everywhere, the chaste ex citements of Christian charity. The pas tor's work is.local.- •His spirit is inwrought into and bound up with the life and inter ests of his particular charge, animating constantly its sacred polity, and interweav ing with its unity"y--7-Ihus making That unity more distinct—the more forcible character istics of his learning and piety, like threads of gold in a woof of tissue. The tendency-of the pastorate'is to .clanniShness. It is, on the other band, the honorable province of the religious journal to promote assimila tion and a spirit of fellowship among- all the churches of its communion, remote or near ; and dexterously pruning off repulsive provincialisms, and lopping the fungous growths of urbane exclusiveness, to gather them into a grand fraternal circle and join them hand-in-hand around their great de nominational institutions and organized modes of dispensing abroad in the world that wealth of- grace and doctrine with which God has endowed them in the ag gregate. - When we survey under such an aspect the province of religious journalism, it seems indeed difficult to place too high an estimate upon - the dignity and scope of its mission. How pleasing the reflection, Messrs. Editors, that there is a class in society, dis tinguished,above all others for its incorrupt and generous instincts, and commanding the unquestioning reverence and affections of all, whose opinions and •conduct in life are, in great measure, controlled and tem pered by our religious journals. lof course refer to the class of thoughtful Christian women. The patient ministries of this class, as it is represented • in the char acter of mother, wife, sister or teacher, are like gentle rains in their influence, disclosing in all the walks of life, whether• in the country or city, the loveliest agency and yet the most general - and perhaps the most potent which God in his benign providence has employed "to re deem our nature from the general curse." It is your enviable prerogative to advise and instruct this class, and your privilege to maintain in honored remembrance its un obtrusive worth and labors of piety, and as sure in it that constant faith which be leaguers daily with _prayers the 'throne of grace, and relies trustfully, in the face of current skepticism, upon the Divine prom ises for the conversion of loved ones. True female beauty is thatwhich is chastened by . sanctity of thought. Ex-PAsToR. NOTICES OP THE CITY -PRESS We hereby tender our , thanks for the kind and cordial greeting the present editors and proprietors - have received from the secular press of this city. The Gazette thus Intro duces us to its readers, after noticing the retirement of Rev. Dr. MCKINNEY : " He is' succeeded by the Rev, .TAMES ALLISON, who, that he may assume" this more far-reaching position of influence in the Church, is about to dissolve his pastor al relation with the Presbyterian congrega tion of Sewickley, -in which he and his people have lived for many years in mutual love and confidence: As we know him well —as we do also his associate, Prof. ROBERT PATTERSON—W 6 cordially welcome them both to their new and responsible field of 4 ‘ Mr. ALLISON entered upon his new field of labor this week, and it is ',with pleaiure we transfer to our columns an ex tract from his opening adiiress to his read ers. We forgot to mention that. Mr. Ama som was formerly one of the editors of the Banner. His position, therefore, is not to him a novel one; and after giving what we have just quoted, no assurance is needed of his eminent qualifications." The Chronicle says: . ",We feel sure that, under the manage ment of such young, energetic;.-and in ev ery-way competent men, the Banner will flourish as it never has done before.,:lt will be the aim of Me present prorgieters to make the Banner a first-class religious weekly, as good as any published' in the east. That' they can do, this with proper tact, push, and liberality, we- have not the slightest doubt. This is the, centre of Pres byterianism; and the Great West needs, and will liberally support a real good religious weekly, containing news of all the Church es, and free from- bigotry, and a too-con traded sectarianism. Christians of all-de nominations, but more especially of the various branches of .the great Presbyterian Church, will be glad to . give such a journal a hearty welcome , to Om homes." .The Pittsburgh Post says , t‘ The Banner has always been a high toned journal, a zealous advocate of the re ligious tenets of the denomiliation of which PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1864. it is the organ, and liberal to its cotempo raries who way honestly differ with it. Success attend the Baitner." The Commercial says that it has nu per sonal acquaintance with Prof. PATTERSON, but that " Mr. ALLISON has, for many years, been pastor of the Presbyterian church at Se wickley, one of the most delightful churches in the whole land,' and assumes the responsible and laborious position of editor at much personal sacrifice. He is an accomplished scholar, a chaste and vig orous writer, and Possesses a cultivated taste." Our predecessor, sometime ago, raised the price of the Banner to $2.00 per an num. To do this was necessary on account of the increased rates of paper, labor, and all the et ceteras of a newspaper establish ment. Bat a week or two afterwards, he stated in a card that, owing to the fact that a little expense in mailing could be saved by sending packages to : one address, he would give five papers to one address for. $B.OO. This was five papers at $1.60 each. But owing to the difficulties connected with this, the offer was not continued; yet many persons noticed the card; and with a single .exeen tion it has been. misconstrued... That it was withdrawn with good reason will be evident upon the slightest consideration,' All the five papers were to be.directed to one man. They must all begin and end at the same time. The _person receiving the five papers must pay the postage on all, distribute four of the papers -to others, and then collect the amount of postage due from each. This was' a trouble that no one would be likely to 'take unless having a great deal of leisure, and - taking a great delight in making small change. This will make it evident to all that such an arrange ment would be complicated and annoying to all concerned. A FIRST:„CLia,OO&STORE. An establishment of this kind is a credit to any community, and a means of enjoy ment and usefulness which cannot be easily over-estimated. We are pleased to be able to remind' our readers of the_supefiority so long maintained by the book-store of Mr. R. S. DAVIS, on Wood Street. Mr. DA 7 vie has lately associated with him . in his increasing buesiness, Messri. SAmuiL.A. CLARKE. and W. W. WATERS. Both of these gentlemen are men of experience, tact, and energy in the book-trade. Mr. CLARKE was for many years known as the active meitiber of the old, firm of C. N. RADA Co., WaShington, Pa. And Mr. WATERS has already been connected with this house for several years, and has such a high reputation among its patrons, that additional recommendation is unnecessary. !There are some features of this Estab lishment to which we wish to call the sak.. cial attention of our readers. Here can always be found a full supply of the Spa: dald and popular works, such as are needed by scholars, divines, readers of rare books, and the people in general.. And we can assure our readers that if they cannot come to the city themselves, they can order their books by mail, and.obtaii them at the same rates as if personally present. - This Arm possesses great facilitias forob taining any publication issued in any• part of the world, in the shortest possible time. Allegheny Theological Seminary,---Rov. Dr. BEATTY, in addition to his .ovalLee tures in Practical Theology, has presented to each of the students of the Seminary, a copy of Dr. SAMUEL MILLER'S 'Volume, entitled " Clerical Manners and Habits," a book admirably suited to be a Vade Mecum for all the _rising ministry. We notice that, within- a few weeks, Allegheny has furnished three pastors to churches of Philadelphia : Rev. DAVID A. CUNNING HAIR, Rev. JOHN EWING, and Rev. ROBT. TAVLon---and this in, addition to Rev. N W. CONKLING, of the Arch Street church NOW Subscribers.—We are highly grad fled 'with the number of new subscribers added to our lists since we took charge .of the. Banner. If each of our present sub scribers would procure a new one—and it could be easily done—a great impetus would be given to our circulation, and a great benefit_ would be conferred on many persons. Let our friends show' .the- Banner to their neighbors, and solicittheir names, and the.work will be speedily done. We respectfully ask our readers to 'make the effort now and they will be surprised at the result. - To Correspondents.—Many thankt toaour friends ,for communications. We hope many more will write for us upon topics of living interest. A single paragraph in a paper so widely circulated as ours, may touch many hearts and'influence` many. lives. But such articles are alWays most acceptable and Useful to readers, which are brief and full of thought,, without formal introductions or labored endings. Board of Tublitatio.—The fiscal year of the Board of Publication begins with the first day of March. And persons having collections or other finds to remit to the Board will please send them in time to reach the Treasurer by that day. Other wise they. cannot be acknowledged in the next Annual Report of the Board. MESSRS. EDITORS :-- My people, ever mindful of their pastor's welfare, .on the sth of. February surprised me.with a wel come visit and kind words of greeting, bringing with them "greenbacks," sup plies for stable, cellar, and wardrobe, also a very beautiful parlor eat:pet—the whole amounting to over MO. Nineteen years of constant intercourse seems only to have cemented more closely the bonds of mutual attachment, and with fresh courage I gird myself to the work of serving them.ln the' OUR TERMS. For the Presbyterian Banner. Donation Visit Gospel. May the Good Shepherd enable me to lead them to still richer pastures and more refreshing streams. - W. W. WOODEND. Woodland Cliffs, Feb. 6, 1864. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES . AND MINISTERS. PRESBYTERIAN. Old School.—At a recent adjourned meet ing of the Presbytery of Louisville, Rev. S. R. Wilson, D.D., lately pastor of the - Grand street church, New-York city, was received as a member of Presbytery, and installed as pastor of the Mulberry church. Dr. Wilson's Post (gm address is.Shelby ville, Ky. Rev. Robert Morrison, of the True Pres byterian in KentuCky, retires, leaving Rev. Dr. Stuart Robinson, to .be its Principal editor. Dr. Robinson has been spending several months in Canada, owing to the. conviction -of• the _Government that his presence in Louisville was not desirable, because of his want of earnest loyalty. At :,a meeting of the Presbytery of St. Clairsville; held in Martinsville on -the 12th ult., Rev. George W.: Chalfant was re ceived from the Presbytery of Carlisle, and" ,is supplying the chur‘Xes of Martinsville and Kirkwood. A call from the .church of Bellair vies, put:into the hands of Rev. 'James D. - -Fitzgerald. Mr. 1?. obtained leave , to, hold : the, call .until the next meet- At a meeting of the Presbytery of High land, called for the'purpose, held in Law rence, Kinsis, on the 29th of January, Mr. William A. Starrett, a licentiate, was re ceived under care of Presbytery, and 'a unanimous call being placed in his hands from the Union church 'of Lawrence, he was, after dtTe examination, solemnly or dained " by the laying on of the hands 'of_ ,the Presbytery," and. installed pastor of the church. - • The prospects of this heretofore strieVen people, are truly encouraging. They are a harmonious and earnest little band, cor dially attached t. their - young but able pastor, and determined to go forward in the great 'work that opens up before them. Through the efforts of one of the members of Presbytery, a fund of, nearly three thou- Sand dollars has been raised for the erection of a house of worship, and the work will be cOnmenced as soon as the Spring opens. God bless the, little flock and their pastor, and grant them abUndint enlargement. At the last _stated meeting of the Phila delphia Central, Presbytery, held at Alex ander church, two new candidates for the ministry were received, and four other can didates were examined with reference to their being licensed in April. A standing rule of this Presbytery requires that all the examinations and parts of trial, except the last—the popular sermon—be leased and approved by the stated meeting pre ceding that at 'Which the candidate expects to be licensed. It, is a good rule for all concerned. On the 9th instant the Rev. Thomas J. Biggs, DID., departed' ibis life at Cincin• nati, Ohio. 'He was born in - Philadelphia in the year 1787, graduated at Nassau Hall, and afterward was a Professor in: Princeton . College. In 1880 he removed.to Cincin nati, and became one of the Professors in Lane Theological Seminary at its organiza tion. Here he remained many years, un til the division in the Presbyterian Church, when he resigned his professorship and be eame President of the Cincinnati College, with the lamented 'Gen. 0. M. Mitchel and Charles L. Telford +among the members of tip Faculty. He., was the last surviving member of the convention that founded the American Bible Society. New Bawl. —Dr. Nelson, pastor of, the First. Presbyterian church,.St. Louisymade an appeal to his congregation a few Sab baths since in behalf of Home Missions, especially in. View _of the wants of the State and Synod of Missouri. Donations and subscriptions were made to the amount of $2,000. ~It will be very gratifying to the friends who came, to - the relief of .this church when treason was sweeping 'over the State, to see that the church is now strong•in its vitality, and blessed with men who have wisdom to discern the signs of the times," and to prepare for the thorough evangelization of ; .the_ population within their Synod, and the resuscitation or icor ganization of loyal churches in its sounds. At a-late meeting of -a Ministerial Con ference, in Philadelphia, when the question of the relation of science to the pulpit was under •discussion,- Dr. Barnes said, that were he to live his life over again, hp would devote-half of the Sabbath day min istrations to expository preaching. He re gards it as the most Scriptural and effective method of presenting the Gospel to the people. - 11nited.—Rev. J. B. Scouller, at present residing in Newville, Cumberland County, Pa. has declined on account of - physical infirmity, an appointment that be received last Springg to deliver the oration before the first meeting of the Society of the Alumni of: the United Presbyterian Theological Seininary in Allegheny, Pa. Vigorous efforts are about:to be made for the endowment of this Seminary. It is proposed to raise at least $30,000, if not $50,000, for this object. Reformed butch.—Rev. Dr. A. R. Van Nest, Jr, formerlyof the Union Associate _Reformed Church, Newburg, N. Y., and more recently an- associate pastor, with the late Dr. Bethune, - of ',a Reformed Dateh church in New-York, is temporarily sup plying the.pulpit of the American Chapel in .Parip, the Rev. Dr. M'Clintock having withdrawn, with a view of returning ,to this country. „ • • - - EPISCOPAL. - Trinity Sebool a well known ProteStant Episcopal educational institution, of New- York, has, through the foirtunnte termination of a lawsuit, come into the possession of prop erty, real , estate and funded, to the value of $3,000,000. The suit has been extended through a period of some thirty years. Mr. Oscar.B. Thayer late a Methodist minister:in charge of the church in Dixon, has publicly announced his withdrawal from the Methodist: Communion,: and has applied to be received .as a candidate for Holy Orders, in'the Episcopal Church. _The Rev: R. W. Oliver has resigned the charge of the - parish of Altoona, Pa., for the purpose of proceeding to KauSas to ad minister to the spiritual wants of the people in the afflicted' region of country adjacent. to Lawrence. - • - . The EpisCopalians of Philadelphia seem to be waking up to the necessity of doing sothething more in .behalf of Foreign Missions. The Rev. Dr. Howe has been appointed a deleoate to visit the churches as far as he may have opportunity, " with a view to the dissemination of missionary intelligence, the callinglortb. of new labor ers for the field, and ample means for their support." METHODIST. The Post Office address of Rev. Alexan der Clark is now Philadelphia, Pa, instead of New Brighton, Pa. Rev. J. M Thoburn, Missionary at Nyne Tal, India, is now delivering lectures in the churches of Pittsburgh and vicinity, on "India and its people." The first - Methodist who ever stepped his foot in the streets of Boston, was Charles Wesley, a brother of John Wesley, one of the great hymn-writers of the world. He sailed from Liverpool for Charleston, S. C., and the ship being disabled, she put in Were in 1774 and remained two weeks. During that time he preached several times, and created considerable sensation. Rev. W. E. Perry is the presiding elder of Trenton (N. J.) District, and it is stated that his preachers are " triumphing in ev ery plaie." Some three hundred peisons were taken into the communion of the Church, on probation, during his last. quar terly round. This district promises .to ad vance nearly or quite $3,000 above it last years contributions to missions. The Christian Avocate and Journal says: ".We are happy to learn from Zion's Heraid,.that there is a faiPprospcot of hav ing a Free Methodist church in Boston. Let the experiment be, tried. It cannot fail to be a success and an honor to Meth odism. We understand the Unitarians have Tree churches in Boston ; why not Methodists ?" BAPTIST, Rev: J. W. Parker, D.D., of Boston, has been 'appointed by the Baptist Home -Mis sion Board to superintend the great work of putting "loyal ministers into the aban dened rebel Baptist pulpits of the _South. The friends of the Rev. Dr. :Fuller of Baltimore, are making strenuous exertions to convince the public that he is and hais been a truly, loyal man from the _outbreak. of the rebellion. Rather a difficult task. Rev. P. A. Wood-writes-to the Examiner from Richie ' West Virginia " hope the Baptists of West Virginia have: your sym pathies. We have been passing through fiery trials during the last three years, and how•much longer they will last the Lord "only. knows. As a denomination we have hitherto stood- connected with-the South in missions, and all the benevolent operations _of the flay. We depended on them for our religious and denominational literature: But this wicked rebellion has rendered it im possible for us ever to wbrk with them again. We must turn our eyes North -and Eat -to find mission bodies. Yes, in our help lessness, wo must look to : you of the .North for that food for the mind, which is almost as necessary as _bread to the starving." - CONGREGATIONAL. _ From the correspondence of the Inde pendent, we learn that there are six Con gregational churches' in Chicago, viz.: The First, Dr. Pattern's with nearly 500 mem bers; the Plymouth, Rev. JoR. Shepherd's, 225 members; the New-England, Rev. S. H. Nichols, 162 members ; the South, Rev. W. B. Wright's, 59 members ; the - Salem, Rev. S. S. Smith's; and the Union Park, associated with the Seminary and minis tered to, by the Professor& - - Rev. J. Henry Thayer accepts his elec tion to the Professorship of Biblical. Litera ture at Andover, and tendered the resign,- tioA of his pastorate to_ his' people—the Crombie Street church and Society—on Sabbath, February 7. He will soon leave for Europe, intending to spend the Summer in Gerrnpny, and enter upon: his duties at Andover in the Fall. • We learn that Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Lynn, is very low, his body being paralyzed, but hia mind retaining its usual clearness. It is thought that he cannot "survive many days. Dr. Cooke was for many years editor of the Puritan and,liecorder, *which did such noble work in the defence of Bible Ortho doxy. The friends of Bangor Theological Sem inary will be rejoiced to learn that its four professorships' are at length endowed with a fund of- twenty , thousand dollars each. The endowment of the third professorship was accOmplished last year, and that'of the fourth has just been completed by the mu nificence of some friends in New-York and Massachusetts. - . QUAKERS. We - have looked with some intgreit over an " kpistle to the Members 'of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia,' in which_the whole duty of Friends in this great crisis is treated. It advises those to whom it is addreseed th'at there is great solicitude felt - that the former " testimo nies" of the body should be fully main _ tained. But it renews no testimony except_ that against all war, and therefore against the war in which the, country is engaged. It recognizes -" the iiickedness and enor mity of the rebellion," but affirms that the "religious 'belief" of Friends restrains them as much front taking part in the effort to suppress this rebellion as any, other. It carries out the pruriplesthenp.nnounced to all their consequences; "and- insists that " Friends" cannot pay commutation money, inasmuch as "the monefia demanded as an equivalents for military service ;" and it ex horts upon those who may " be dialed upon to suffer for this precious testimony, to " bear it in the gentle, non-resisting spirit of the Lamb of God." And it administers the-severest of 'all the tests which ,can be applied to prineiples,,when it .warns those to whom it is addressed against any " busi- . ness, which depends for its emoluments on its. connection with war." ROMAN CATHOLIC. Bishop Wood, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Philadelphia, has created a Sen sation by denouncing all organizations of a political, Social, or religions nature, whose niemlieri are in any- way bound together by 'secret oaths' or rules. His attention was called to-the ''Subject_ by, the _spread; lir power and influence, of a society known as the - Fenian Brotherhood. For`its advocacy - of the Fenians, the - Biihop withdrew his 'sanction from the Catholic Herald/and has caused pastoral to be reed in the va rious Catholic churches throughout the 'dioCese, addressed to the Irish Catholics, who are warned' lagainsf all association with secret societies of any and every kind. -- Bishop Ductan Of. Chicago, has issued a similar order to the people of his diocese. The " Fenian Brotherhood" is said to_be an organization of Irishmen whose object is- the severance of' Ireland from British dominion and the. reestablishment ''of Ire land's nationality., Per the Presbyterian Banner Our Saviour says,`" Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." The converse of this is I rite--where your heart is, there will your treasure be also. This prin ciple has been manifest by the members of the Salem church and friends of other de nominations, in their very liberal' donation given to me and my family. For the last two years I have supplied this church one-fourth of the time. And as a testimo nial of regard, they invited myself and fam ily to meet them in the Salem church on the 20th of January, where they had pre pared a bountiful dinner. After dinner and religious exercises, a person appointed by the congregation, %made a donation to myself and. family,- amounting to a ,little over a hundred. dollars. Considering the number of communicants (only 41), may we not say you have done nobly? ' Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Also, on the 28th of January, according to -previous arrangement, the members of Cdol Spring church', and other _Christian friends, met at the church ; and after par taking of a . well prepared dinner, _ they made their pastor and family a very liberal denation. - After singing and prayer, they were dismissed. Another pleasing feature was, that in the afternoon and evening many of the youth of the congregation called cm their pastor at his house, and after some' refreshments were served, they' sang several • very appropriate - pieces ' and were led in prayer by their pastor. They then retired,• not however until they had presented their pastor's wife with a roll of bills, The donation of this church amount ed to about one hundred and eighty dollars. On behalf of myself and family, I return our heartfelt thanks to these kind friends. And my prayer is, that," when the Son of Man shall come in his glory," they may hear him say, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom "prepared for you from the foundation of.the world. In asmuch as ye have done"it unto one of the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me." J. W. 111'CurrE. PersonaL Jona, the Cincinnati sculptor, has, just finished a - fine bust, draped, ..of Secretary Chase, - which will be at once put in marble by order of the friends of the Secretary in Washington. . When the late Mama Morton, says the Springfield I?epublican, was Governor - of Massachusetts for the first time, he one day addressed his council upon his intended ap pointments, and among other matters he alluded to a petition from a young man who desired 'the appointment' of messenger to the Goirerner and Council. The applicant had then - just commenced his public career, having spoken at political meetings with excellent effect. The Governor remarked: " I have considered his case and I shall not appoint him, for he is too smart a man' and too good a mechanic to fill the position." " What did you say was his name ?" asked a councillor, who had not listened very attentively. " His name," replied the Gov ernor "is Nathaniel P. Banks!! Br. Malan , of Geneva.—The British; Stan.- dard of January 22d, brings us the intelli gence that this distinguished minister and noble champion of the Gospel, is alarming ly ill. The information is conveyed in -the following extract of .a letter from his daughter : " My beloved father (Dr. Ma= lan) is not recovering. He is getting very weak, and' the severe cold: f the season ag gravates all his symptoms. My last letter received this morning says that, though no immediate ,danger is apprehended, yet his weakness and sufferings may soon cut him off His perfect trust in God, his gentle ness, submission, and patience, arc to be mention - ed.to the praise of the. Master he has so long and faithfully served. God himself has "teen his help. My father asks for the prayers of all his friends in this country.' General Butler proposes to establish a common-school `system at Norfolk and For tress Monroe, modelled : upon that of Massa:. chusetfs. This will insure the education of hUndreds of colored children. It is - a sad fact that of nearly three thousand five hundred colored soldiers in camp on the eastern shore of Maryland, not one can either read or write. Several distinguished citizens of New- York, among whom are Messrs. Hamilton Fish, Peter Cooper, and William E. Dodge, having become alarmed at the extravagance in administering the municipal affairs of that city, have organized a Citizens' ASSO ciation,. opened - an office, , and, seriously set to work to agitate for reform; In 1855 the city and county debt was $14,000,000, and in 1862 it had reached.s2B 251 000. • Governor Carney, of Kansas, has - been elected United States Senator from that 'State, by the legislature. James B. Clay, a son of Henry Clay, and late a member of the House of Represen tatives from the Ashland district in Ken tucky, his recently died in Montreal, a fu gitive.He thoroughly sympathized with the rebel movement in the South, and since his flight to Canada has been actively en gaged 'with Vallandigha,m, Morehead, and other - fugitivesin concocting plots against our Government. He was born in 1817. UN, W. CurtlS, heretofote an editorial con tributor, has now become editor of Harper's Weekly. The independent gives this gen tleman a spirited defence from the severe criticism of The Round -Table, which it re gards as a, gross assault. _ " - Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of William Lloyd Garrison, a graduate of Harvard College, has accepted a position on the ed itorial staff of the independent. "A Grand Bali and. Supper," " memory of. Thomas Paine," author of the Age of Reason, as Fell as " Common Sense and the Rights of Man," was .given, and " came off" on Friday evening' ast; " it the (The doze}Parker Fraternity Rooms" in Bos ton, agreeablYy, to public adiertisement: Where .could - :a more suitable place have been found for such a gathering ? - ' Litergry Reins. The Tiniversity of - Chicago has resolved to give a free education, comprising tuition and board; tolhe sons of deceased soldiers,' for which a fund is being raised. To an- - eommodate these orphan students, and oth ers, the work of bidlding harcernmenced, and W. 13. Ogden, Esq., has subscribed for that object the munificent sum of $lO,OOO. RC*. P. V. Pettibone, of Burlington,. the Agent of Beloit College for Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, Secured $1,500 lately in the small towns of Somers and Caledonia, from the " forehanded" farmers main.ly. President. Chapin has secured nearly $l6;- 000 in the 'East. The College has now a library of about - 4,000 volumes, annually increased by donations, and by the interest on a legacy of 'ss,ooo The chemical ap paratus, manufactured in GermanY, under the personal supervision of Prof. said to be unusually good. gentleman in Lawrence, M $25,000 to Oberlin College. Oberlin graduate The President ~• v ren, N. J., railroad, gives 8.10,(K3t) Arnold Guyot's professorship in College. Prof. Bartlett and I:ev. Hammond, of Chicago Theolo ,, ie a l nary have returned from New-i0 1 k..:, the endowment of another era.. s2s,ooo—completed. The Board of Overseers of Ilarr:. 1 ; lege have raised the tuition to one and four dollars a year. They Inx,, pointed a committee " to see what can be taken to give a truly character to the theological departi„, ; . i . inviting all Christian denorninati,r, irf t State to endow prOfessorships be filled by suitable men anion , .. , , selves.". The friends of Dartmouth e Q u e .,,, , Boston and vicinity, are interestin g , selves, just new, in the work of cs i ar , its-endowment. This is as it 0,11, 11 ; 1 ', No college of our land, can show ;A 1,, record, in, respect to the number tive workers for God and huomeiy it has sent forth into the various life. Nearly one-fourth of its Airmn,i been ministers of the Gospel, ao I n .„, them have been, some of our most d e ,„. missionaries, such as Goodell, 7, ple, Epaulding, and Wright; whd, of its sons have been distinguished it , important spheres. Varieties. Th e ffentreal Witness asks for a exphinatiOn of the fact that thi, ;,: the mildest Winter ever known in Canada, -and the severest, perhap, known in the Western States, an I .;r o , far south as St. Louis and Washin;:t.n. The Twenty-first Indiana regiment, wi is at New Orleans, now nuinlvir, thim hundred and fitly men fit for duty. i t perhaps the strongest regiment in the vice. The Seventeenth Indiana, whicl. participaied in thirty-two engavenn reenlisted and been armed with the S , cer repeating rifle. The Washington.eorrespondent of th e , •\;- cester Transcript, who has exami t y,d Internal Revenue returns, says that toi m pays a. tax of $2,850,000; leather !11 , next, paying $1,900,800 ; then i ren , 700,000; and then malt liquor, 2edlers pay $300,000 for their ire :: and those who ride in carriages • It is an interesting fact that the f„nk confiscated estates now making at Be.2ir, S. 0., it carried orit from the ver,mti4 the Edmund Bhett House, where a than ten years ago the rebellion was I ed over by the very men whose estve, i pass under the "hammer. It is sia :f lL too, that the chairman of the Tax Gine: sion, Dr. Wm. Henry Brisbane, is the L. who, more than twenty years ago, war en frorn the State because he wouldliLl.. his slaves. The stated meeting of the Manageri of - American Bible Society was held. Bible House ,on Thursday afternoon, inst., Wm... 33. Crosby in the chair munications were received from the )jar land Bible Society in relation to the , li. - -`bution. of the Scriptures in the 3 So from the United States Christian Cow. don, with an account of the distribution books granted by this Society, alum::: to five hundied and sixty-slight thou,... two: hundred and seventy-hve Grants of books were made, amomoia. - nearly seventy thousand volumes, fur : army, and for distribution in Mehl._ and Georgia; to Confederate prisoners Johnson's Island and Columbus; fur trabands in Virginia; to the Chrk. Commission; for Venezuela and A.; with several smaller grants, inciai twelve volumes in: raised letters, for blind. Ili money; $2,600 were gramel the American and Foreign Christian for distribution• of the Scriptures in It. Greece, and elsewhere. An agent wa , pointed for Nebraska and Dacota tent': ries, and another for South America. The first annual meeting of the Ifni States Commission for the Relief of National Freedmen, representing var Freedmen's Relief Associations in the tern, Middle and Western States, wa= ' in 'ashington on the sth of Felp , i 18(34. The following resolutions unanimously adopted Resolved, That this Commission re,:- fully ad.dress themselves to the Presid,r the United States, in the expression of earnest desire, that measures be adure give to the slaves made free by the i :'° of the Government, a legal and pie; session of adequate land for their ret,ai and-support, as rapidly and 'as early a- responsibilities of the Government render possible. Resolved, That we have learnel, great pleasure, that initiatory step,: been taken'in Congress to establish a I; roan of Emancipation, or Freedmen' , .\ fairs, and that it is our earnest desire, view of.the urgent necessity for some action on the part of the Government. IL no time be lost in following up those by'final action. resolved ; - That this Commission to the Executive and to Congress their conviction Of the importance and Ile,— of the adoption of measures whereby. I seendants of the African race in our try, enlisted in the army and navy. placed in all respects, as' regards pay. big and consideration, on the salmi ' - with - other soldiers and sailors in the s orthe United States, • Ordered, That copies of thP i resolutions be transmitted by the to the President of the United "Stat•-. to the= (ihairtnen of the appropriate tees of the Senate and House Wives. linitur States Christian Connsi‘Nio! :. The Ariny Committee of We , : , sylvania presents the following 1 -, P'"-` operations during the month OF ,/ Reif„Robt. M. Millen and of New aatle, Fa.; Rev. (. 1 3 rut. Cam: E - of Mt. Jackson; Rev. A. Callioulpi. peraneevillek Rev. W. M. Coletomi• burgh Mr. Geo. Burns Clinto. , Rev. F. / Tohnston, Belie CennL. Rev. Thomas S. Leeson, Itev- JAL. Carr, St. Clairsville, t rio gone as delegates to the Army 0 berland. • Rev.. M.:Roberts, of Nor tip Ohio; Mr: J. Calhoun, Rev. A:- H.-Hollowa Smith:, NI,. and. Rev. W. F. Morgan, Rural \ have gone to the Army of the I The Treasurer acknowleges donations received in January : PRESBYTERIAN CER - RCUE ,. Newton . Church, Fletcher, Ohio ........• Church, Apple - Creek, " . . .... Bethel church, . - .... Rural Village, Armetrong county, Ps =I
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