Vrtsblyttrian ``aitrter.
fITTSBUR6II, WEDNESDAY, MUST 24, 1864.
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THE PRINCETON REVIEW AND TIIE PRES
BYTERIAN ON TaB•IIIOPIIEETERS USE.
Por many years Dr. HODGE has given a ` -
resume of the proceedings of the General
Assembly, and also an expression of his
own views as to its acts, in the number of
the Princeton, Review immediately succeed
ing the rising of the Assembly. This
year the article devoted to this purpose is
largely occupied with the action of the
Assembly on Slavery, and with the com
plaint of Dr. MCPHEETERS. As usual,
this Review is not in advance of the
Church, but is lagging in the rear. With
all its ability and learning, , it has never
stood in the forefront of the battle when
great questions Of vital importance were
to be met and decided. This was the case
in 1837, in 1861, and we regret to say that
this is also true in 1864.
With respect to the paper on Slavery, it
is difficult to tell what side the author
would have taken had he been a member
of the Assembly. But y.
, to make every
thing clear, he undertakes to define what
the Assembly must have meant by that
deliverance, and also what it-must not have
meant, according to his apprehensions of
the whole subject. This was altogether
"unnecessary : because the Assembly un
derstood its own action in all its bearings,
and expressed its meaning clearly, without
leaving the interpretation to any theolog
ical professor, or to any other person.
But it is the MONEETERS ease which
especially brings down the condemnation
of the Review upon the late General As
sembly. Yet we do not see that the Mem
bers who voted against sustaining that
memorable complaint, which has been mag
nified into proportions and an importance
to which it was' never entitled, have any
cause for alarm on account of this attack
upon them. Dr. HODGE wholly misappre
hends the state of things in our churches
in St. Louis, the position of Dr. MCPHEE:
TEES, and also the nature of the proceed--
lugs of the Presbytery of St. Louis.
Every one who listened attentively and ,
with, unbiased mind
. to the Records of. the
Presbytery and to the whole discussion,
and who has read the article in question,
has been fully convinced that Dr. HODGE
had a very partial and ex parte view of the
whole case, and that consequently his rea
soniogs are so unsatisfactory and so incon
clusive.
, However, this is not all. The ease was
decided against Dr. 51cPuzaTaas, by a
vote of 117 to 46. Now such a vote as
this, in our General Assembly, is entitled
to the highest respect of every minister
and member in our • Church. But how
does Dr. HODGE treat it ? He says one
place, "In our judgment, the whole course
of the Assembly was singularly unfair!'
I A another place he says, "We think
grave injustice was done, not Only to Dr.
MOPREETERS, but to the whole Presbyte
rian Church : and that the sanction of the
Assembly has been given to acts and prin
ciples deserving universal reprobation."
Now, in plain language, do not these
charges amount nearly to a " railing accu
sation " 7 against the Assembly, and that
too by one of iesi most distinguished and
honored theological professore. Again,
Dr. Homq is unfair in the impression he
metres with regard to : the supporters and
opponents of. the _complaint _of Dr. Mo.
PHEETERS. He says : '<His (Dr. MC
PREMIM') cause" was udimeated by many
of 'the wisiest, ablest, and best men of 'the
. .
Arfpnwitts of great clearness and
power in support of the complaint were
made by Hon.. Judge WOOD, Rev. Drs.
Rion, MACLEAN, W. L. BRECKINRIDGE,
and CRAVEN, by Judge RYERSON, H.
MURRAY GRADON, Esq., Rev. Messrs.
SAMUEL MILLER, THOMAS CLELAND, and
others." After having made such a state
ment as this, common fairness would have
required a grave reviewer to have noticed
the names of some, at least, who opposed
sustaining the complaint of Dr. Nu
PHEETERS: But Dr. HODGE does not clo
this. And yet it was a fact obvious to all,
that the great weight of the age, the expe
rience, and the ability' of the Assembly
was unquestionably against Dr. MePau.-
TEAS. In opposition to him were such
men as the venerable Rev. Dr. Ets
mum who had been a member of the
Assembly as far back as 1814; the venera
ble Rev. Dr. PAXTON, who had been a
member of the. Assemblies of 1815 and
1818. With these were united the Rev.
Drs. Musottevn, BEATTY, KREBS, Du-
BOIS, TUSTIN, BURTIS, BUSH, SCHENCK,
and a large part of the bone and sinew Of
the working ministers of the Assembly,
together with such laymen as War. RAN
KIN, Jr., ROBERT CARTER, Judge LINN,
and others of like standing, and spirit.
Surely the character of this Aseembly
en
titles it to a degree of respect not rendered
by the Princeton Reviewer.
We have a few words to say concerning
the Presbyterian. One of its recognized
editors, took an active part in the Assembly
in favor of Dr. MCPHEETERS. But the
Presbyterian did not commit itself on
either side until after the appearanCe of the
Princeton article, when it puts itself in
even a more objectionable attitude toward
the Assembly than does the. Review. We
greatly regret this, but as public journal
ists, we must Call attention to the fact.
We' understand the Presbyterian to
affirm that a man may " faithfully keep
a stringent oath of allegiance to the
State," during a time of civil strife, when
a powerful party is endeavoring to over
throw that State,and yet refuse even to
let it be known on' which side his sympathies
are arrayed. He may lift his hand to
heaven and swear that- he will sustain the
Government, and yet, with perfect consis
tency, may refuse to pray that God would
be pleased to grant it the victory, and may
persistently refuse to contribute by It's
means, his influence, or his personal efforts,
to support that Government. His fellow
citizens may he dying by thousands in de
fence of that authority so wantonly assailed ;
and this man, with the oath of allegiance
on his lips, may utterly refuse to say that
he thinks the men who murdered them are
doing wrong; and this too, even though
his personal influence might have deterred.
many from espousing the cause of rebellion.
If be himself has not pulled the trigger, or
committed any other overt act, it is all
right. We understand the Presbyterian
to say,that such a man has faithfully kept
his oath of allegiance. -
Secondly, we understand the .Presbyte
rian to affirm that, even though wai be
flagrant:, even though treason has been
hatched in ecclesiastical assemblies, as it
certainly was in one of our own Church
judicatories in South Carolina before the
secession of that State, and no matter hew
conclusive the evidence may be, that treason
is intended, the civil authority has, no
right, in its own defence, to prescrib* any
conditions under which such assemblies
may be held; and this too, whilst it i.
admitted that the conditions are unobjec
tionable in themselves. The sacred, even
though abused, name of religion, ought to
shield the concoction of' treason; and the,
State is powerless to prevent, it can only
punish. The abettors of secession have on
ly to proclaim a camp meeting in one of the
border States, and it would be an outrage
for the civil or military authority to mar
their plot by requiring all who attended
the gathering to take an oath of allegiance.
Thirdly, we understand the Presbyte
rian, to affirm that, - if an oath of alleaiance
is required, the members of Presbytery
ought to absent themselves from' its meet
ings : and by .a parity of reasoning, should
absent themselves from the pulpit too, if
an oath of allegiance were the condition of
exercising the ministry. PETER and Joins,
when human came in Conflict, with Divine
requirements, chose to obey God rather
than man, and were willing to take the
consequences. We mnderstand our cotem
porary to 'counsel a different course.
Fourthly, we understand the Presbyte
rian to adopt the, position of the Princeton
Review, that the General Assembly has no
right to sustain the action of, the numeri
cal minority of the members of a Presby
. tory, even though, in the opinion of the
Review, the absentees be inexcusably ab
sent. We presume it will not be disputed
that, if everinaember of a Presbytery or
Synod were in -his seat, and, any action
which might be the foundation of an ap
peal or complaint should pus by a major
ity of nineteen-twentieths, it would never
theless be undoubtedly within the power of
the Assembly to reverse the decision of the
court below. If this be not the ease, the
exalted function of this highest tribunal .of
our Church, upon all questions that come
up to it from an inferior judicatory, would
be resolved into a simple " counting of
noses." Yet, strange) to say, though the
Assembly may unquestionably,- as it has
of,en done, nverse the decisions of a ma.
prity, it has not the power to, sustain the
measures of a numerieal,minority, acting in
the admitted sphere of its legitimate du
ties.
, Lastly, when the Princeton Review pre
sumes to condemn the General Assembly,
as sanctioning " p.iaciples and acts deserv
ing universal reprobation,','- and which,
for injustice and wrong, have " few, if any
parallels in the history of our Church,"
with more to the same effect, the Presbyte
rian pronounces this language "the, quiet
flow of words which have no harsh or bitter
sound." If the Princeton RenNw has re
ally leen " drawing it mild" in its se ee
tion of words and phrases as quoted above,
we would be interested to see, simply as a
rhetorical curiosity, one of its ." harsh"
criticisms.
We disclaim any right to catechize our
respected, edtemporary. Our reflections
arise naturally out of,iti 'article. They are
not by any means confined to ourselves;
and in reference to its sentiments respect
PRESBYTERIAN. BANNER.---IiVE_D:\IESDA v, AUGUST 24, 1864.
ing the points it has touched upon, wheth.
er or not we have misapprehended its mean
ing, there are not a few who would like
to know.
PULPIT. MINISTRATIONS; OR, SARUM
Such is the title of a new work, in two
volumes, by the Rev. GARDINER SPRINO,
D. D., which has been for BOMt, time on our
t.ble. The venerable character of the au
thor, his long-continued services in the.
Church,. and the valuable contents, merit
more than a passing notice for these vol
umes containing thirty-nine sermons.
Naturally, Dr. SPRING was endowed with
no extraordinary gifts of reason or imag
ination. His learning was not g nat. his
theological reading has been by no means
extensive. There are noqv many min
isters in our Church, whose fame does
not, extend beyond their own Presby
teries, who in early life were vastly hie
superilrs in argument, in illustration, in
classical learning, and in theological attain
ments: These men are not without their
reward. The Master will not permit the
labors of any of his faithful servants to be
forgotten.
But from the beginning of his ministry,
the lines fell 0 Dr. SPRING-in pleasant
plaoes. The congregation of the Old
Brick church was, and is,- a model. The
people clustered around their pastor, inter
ested themselves in his welfare, devoted
themselves to all the labors
. necessary to
building up a growing and useful - church,
and relieved him of every possible barden
that he might give himself continually to
prayer and the ministry of, the Word..
His salary was always liberal, and always
promptly paid. And tokens of esteem and
affection, along with the voluntary gifts of
large soma of money, from time to time,
cheered the spirits and encouraged the
li,art of the faithful pastor. His. Session
was able, faithful, and abundant in labors.
They were ever read) to uphold the pastor's
hands, and no disparagement of him could
be permitted in their hearing. Among
them were no croakers. None of them was
willing to hear, much less to retail, the idle
gossip that so often crushes worthy minis
ters 'to the earth. In that Session were
n) " itching ears." And when the hand
of sickness was at any time laid on the
pastor, none of that Session
. ever thought
of going to his sick chamber and assuring
him that his salary was altogether too low,
bat that nothing mole could be done to in
crease the salary for him, and that there
fore he had better seek some new field of
labor. No such violence as this was ever
perpetrated on Dr. SPRING. His. Session
and people rejoiced , with him, and also
wept with him, and anticipated all his
wan ts.
And what happy results have fillowed
Dr. SPRING'S has been one of the longest
pastorates of modern times. Amid all the
fluctuations of a great city like New-York,
his congregation has always been increas
ing. 'His spiritual children are now dis
persed all over the land. And in the
meantime his qualities of head and heart,
h snatural abilities and his gifts of grace,
have been so trained and developed that he
became one of the most polished, and alio
one or the richest and most experimental,
preachers with whom the two generations
in which he lived have been blessed. And
now, even in extreme old age, his pulpit
services are as attractive and powerful as
ever. Nor has his own pulpit been the
only place where his power in the manifes
tation of the Gospel has been felt. From
time to time he has sent out through the
press some of his best Matured and most
important thoughts on the great matter of
man's salvation and Christian duty. These
have been widely read and highly prized.
The last contribution he has made to the
Church and the world,in this way, is now
btfure us in two noble volumes from the
press of the 'HARPERS. The subjects em
braced in these thirty-nine discourses are
very variona; and are treated in the Dr.'s
very best Biblical style. Here, if we mis
take not, are some of the best specimens of
able Gospel sermons ever delivered by the
fenerable pastor of the Brick Church.
We commend them, as models for examina
tion and study, to our ministers, and to all
Christian families, for reading and medita
tion.
*PULPIT MINISTRATIONS ; or. Sabbath Read
ings. A Series of Discourses on Christian Doo
trine - and Duty. By. Gar diner Spring. 2 vols.,
pp. 480, 452. 1864. New-York: Harper 4.
Bros. Pittsburgh: Davis, Clarke t Co.
An incident has been related tons which
illustrates forcibly both-the influence which
a word spoken in season may exert, and the
vital energy inherent in Divine truth,
which, though long buried in the sinner's
heart, and forgotten even by the hand that
sowed the seed, may yet spring- up, and
bear an unexpected and abundant harvest.
Many years ago a student in one of our
Western colleges, assiduously pursuing his
studies with a view to preparing, himself
for the Christian ministry, was visited in
his room one evening, whilst busily en
gaged over his books, by a fellow-student,
a young man of unusual talent and high
promise, who had devoted himself to the
legal profession. The conversation, as it
sometimes will with college youth, em
braced in its scope the path which each
had selected to piarsue through life, and the
visitor urged upon Lis fiend the inexpe
dieney of throwing array his time and tal
ents in the thankle.is and uncompensated
labors of , the ministry, sketching at the
same time in glowing colors the career that
would open before hiin should he engage in
the practice of the law, and the usefulness,
the affluence, the fame, that would follow
such a choice.
The aspirant after higher than earthly
honors quietly heard him through, felt
that it would be useless Co enter into a
bored argument with one who, with per
verted logic, had fortified himself to.resist
the loftier considerations which had deter
mined his own choice of the pulpit, and
answered his friend in the words of that
simple but sublime recognition of aDivine
injunction- 1( 1'N, is me, if I preach not
. .
the Gospel."
,
"The discussion closed with the deter
mination on Ihe part of each to pursue his ,
chosen walk. Months glide away in the
routine of 'college dean ) and ere long•each
-RUBINS.*
A WORD - TIM SPUN.
has graduated with distinction. In due
course of time the one becomes engaged in
those pastoral labors, in which he sought
humbly and faithfully to build up the king
dom of his Saviour. The other, in a far
Southern State, in the profession.of his
choice, sees before him the prospect of at
taining all that his youthful ambition had
pictured so brightly.
Yet never, since the conversation which
has been mentioned, had he been able to
withdraw the arrow which had,ken lodged
in his own conscience; and stil ,amidst all
his schemes for future success, would come
a still small voice—" Woe is me, if I
preach not the Gospel." God's blessing
followed the word which his own Spirit
had directed ; and after years of resistance
on the part of one fur whom the world , was
opening in brilliant and alluring perspec
tive, the grace of God triumphed over
human infirmity, the ambitions student
consecrated . himself -unreservedly to the .
Mister's service, and ere long was bimSelf
a.ireacher of the Gospel of that Saviour
whose supreme right over him he had E 0
long contested. Many years of dfstin
guished usefulness in the pulpit and in the
Professor's chair, have resulted from those
fiw words spoken by a college friend, and
f:vm the spirit of self-negation with which
ney were uttered. .
NEED OF PRAYER.
Prayer is always necessary. Neither the
Church nor the Chriatian can sustain for an y
length of time even the semblance of piety
without prayer. But there are.times when
the call to prayer seems louder - and more
earnest than at other times. Is not tho
present such a time? Are not the mo
tives to urge us to the Mercy Saat as strong
as can ever be presented ? All our inter
ests for time and eternity conspire to stir
up the pious heart to prayer.
Our country calls upon us to pray. Our
rulers and commanders ask our prayers.
Our brave soldiers in the field claim a place
in our petitions. The biek and wounded
in the hospitals ask us to' pray for them.
The bereaved all - over the land who mourn
the fallen, appeal toms to Make mention of
them and to plead for grace for them, in
the name of Jesus CHRIST.
And does not the Church need our
prayers—our unceasing, fervent prayers
She ,acknowledges that weakness has come
upon her, that the gold has become I.im,
and the most fino gold been changed. The
earth is watered and refreshed, but no
showers fall 'upon Zion. Only here and
there some precious mercy drops descend.
In the meantime iniquity abounds, unbe
lief leads many astray, worldliness 'is all
absorbing, and the love of many waxes
cold. Family religion is neglected, and
the young are growing up careless of God
and regardless of the claims of the Gospel
upon them now, and of their eternal state
in the future, .
Surely, then, it is high time for every
Christian to awake out of sleep, and to call
upon-the Lord that he would have mercy
upon us, that he would bring us to repent
ance for our'sins, that he would turn away
his wrath from us, that he would give us
victory, and subdue speedily this great and
wicked rebellion, that-.he would cause his.
Word to have free course and to be glori
fied throughout the land =rind the world,
'that he would cause to be won everywhere
trophies of his redeeming love and saving
puwer, that there might be joy in heaven
over vast multitudes of sinners flocking to
the cross, that Zion might arise and shine,
hsr light hiving come.
' Ye twat are the Lord's rimnnbraneers,
keep not silent. Let us pour out our
hearts in prayer unto God,. and he will be
very gracious unto us at the voice of our
Another Minister . Deceased.-- The Rev.
WILLIAM SICKELS, Sen., died on the 9th
inst., in the city of Indianapolis, in the
69th year of his age. The Presbyter says
of him: " He ,was a minister of superior
ability and good attainments, arid liras uni
versally esteemed among' his brethren. He
spent most of his ministerial life in the
territory of Indianapolis Presbytery. - A
more extended notice of the deceased is
due to the history of our Church in the
North-west. We have known him inti
°lately for nearly thirty years."
New Version of the fsalms.—The COM- .
aiittee appointed by the Genera.' Assembl3r
of the United Presbyte;ian Church, to
prepare a new Version of the Book of
Psalms, has _offered a premium of from
five to twenty thousand dollars for the
best new version, of the Book of P.salnis.
And contributions are solicited from the
Church' generally, in. aid of this fund.
The premium is not to be paid until the
new version has' been adopted by the
Church. •
The Evangelical Repository 'and United
Piesbyteriaa Review.—This magazine for
Seinember has an excellent steel engraving
of the late Rev. THOMAS HANNA, D.D.,
so long and so favorably known in Western
Pennsylvania.
NEWS OF THE CHURCHES
- AND MINISTERS.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Old Stbool.—The Post .Office :address of
Rev. S. V. McKee is change& frotn Cler
mond., Ind., to Peru, lad.
The Post Oleo 'address of Rev. B. S.
Sloan is changed .from Allegheny City,
Pa., to Camden Mills, Rock Island County,
Illinois. • '
The New-York Observer says the Pres
bytery of Connecticut met on the 20th of
July, at North Stamford, Conn., to ordain
Mr. Roswell D. Smith, a licentiate under
its care, to the Gospel ministry, as an even
gehst. The Rev. A. L. Lindsley, of South
Salem, N. Y., presided, proposed the con
stitutional questions, and preached the ser
mon from Luke is 60, GO. The charge to
the newly ordained minister was given by
the Rev. Charles -W. Baird, of Rye; and
the Rev. Win. Patterson, of Poundridge,
addressed the congregation, inforinally, re
lative to the nature
,of the service. Mr.
Smith is at present supplying,, with mueli
acceptance, the pulpit of the Congregation
al church at North-Stamford, and it was
Upon the courteous invitAtion•of the people
that the Presbytery met and held this ser
vice in their place of worship.
Rev. Isaac Van Doren, the oldest mem
ber of the Presbytery of New-Brunswick,
died at Perth Amboy, on Friday, Aug. 12,
alter a short illness, aged ninety-one years.
Dr. Cogswell, ihe next oldest member of
the same Presbytery, died a feiv days be
fore.
The Rev. J. D. Mason, for several year's
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dav
enport, has accepted the Presidency of the
Synodical School of lowa, at Hopkintown.
The Rev. S. J. P. Anderson, D.D., of
St. Louis, has been tried before a military
- Commission, on eleven-different specifica
tions, all involving a high degree of disloy
alty, and found guilty of them all: He was
sentenced to be sent South of the Federal
lines as soon as practicable. But the pro
ceedings have been disapproved, by the
Commanding-General, on account of a de
fect in the orders convening the Commis
sion. " The number of members in this case
was reduced below the minimum prescribed
in paragraph 2, in General Orders No. 1,
series of 1862, from these headquarters.
The proceedings are therefore inoperative
and void."
Mr. David J. Beale was ordained to the
work of the Gospel ministry, and installed
pastor of the Middle Tuscarora church, on ti e
11 tb inst., by the Presbytery ofHuntingdor
In this service the Rev. Mr. Wallace, of
Altoona, preached the sermon, from Rom.
viii : 32 ;-Rev. M. Allison, D.D., of Mifflin--
. town, presided, proposed the eonsiitutional
questiuds, made the ordaining prayer, and
gave the charge to the pastor; and Rev.
O. O. McClean, of Lewistown, to the peo
ple. The;young brother is a native of the
Valley, and was raised within the bounds
or' the 'congregation over which he was in
stared.
The Boston Recorder says that the " re
ligious interest in'the Presbyterian parish,
(Rev. Mr. Ilaskell's,) East Boston, seems
unabated. Last Sabbath nine members'
were, received into the aura, and several
othfrs gave evidence of real piety, and hope
soon to be admitted to a public profession
of faith in their Saviour.
4e.v. E. C. Trimble, who has been sup
plying the Goshen ohurch; Presbytery of
Lonisville, fbr some time past has accepted
an invitation to supply the First Presbyte
rian and Edgefteld churches, Nashville,
Tennessee.
On the fourth Sabbath of July, the Rev.
J. F. Fenton, and the Rev. J. M. Maxwell,
two members of a committee appointed for
the purpose by the Presbytery of St. Louis,
organized a church at Franklin, Missouri,
under t.he name of the First Presbyterian
church of Franklin.
Now School,—The Rev. 11. H. Jessup,
missionary to Syria, with two of his chil
dren, arrived by the City of London, on
the 9th inst., from Syria ; Mr.• Jessup left
Syria for the sake of his wife's health, but
she died July 2d, at Alexandria, Egypt,
and he has come to America with his chil
dren, intending. to . return soon to Syria.
liev. Dr. Sunderland sailed on the 20th
inst., to take charge of the American chap
el at Paris.
United.—Mr. David Gordon, licentiate• of
the Xenia Presbytery} has received a call
to take-the pastoral charge of the Fourth
United Presbyterian church, (Rev. G. C.
.Arnold, late pastor,) of Philadelphia.
Rev. T. H.' Dysart, pastor of the U. P.
church in Urbana,' Ohio, died a few days
ago from
,an attack of camp dysentery,
brought on while laboring in the army as a
delegate of the Christian Commission.
At '.a communion season on the 14th inst.,
in the Sixth church, Philadelphia, (Rev. J
C geloy, pastor,) thirteen persons.were
received, three on certificate and ten on a
profession of their faith in' Christ. This
- church was the first and endeared charge
of the late Rev. Thos. 11, Beverage, and
has encouraging prospects.
Reformed Doteh,-- I —The ekristian Intelli
gence?, saysrit has been known for some
time to his friends, that the Rev. Joseph
A. Collier, pastor of the Second Reforthed
Dutch church' of Kingston, N. Y., was suf
fering under a wasting and well nigh ineu
. rable - malady. For months his energies
wpm' gradually drained and his strength ex
hausted. Still with the patience and per
severance of hope, he pursued his miniate
rial labors, trusting that his strength would
hold• out and perhaps be restored. At or
near the beginning of the` present month,
he sought a respite from toil and went to
Chatham, Columbia County ) . to find repose,
and if possible returning health. But the
Lord has been pleased to call his servant
into the everlasting rest. During the last
week his physical strength rapidly failed,
and .on Saturday last the Rev. Jos A. Col
lier ,ceased to dwell on earth. He was in
the thirty, sixth year of his age.
METHODIST.
The Rev. 3 D. Turnf!r, folmerly a mem
-IF, of the Pittsburgh Conference, died in
Vireshington on June 26th. He was twelve
yeer3 an effective member of the Confer
ence, and a -superannuate two years. At
the last Conference he was located, no rep
resentation having been received from him.
For, about, two years lie bad been connected
w.tki the army, but from failing health had
resigned his situatibn, and was engaged for
some time in selling books to the soldiers.
While employed in this business he was at
tacked with diarrhoea of the typhoid type,
and after two weeks of severe suffering,
ended : his life and labors.
The Anniversary of the Sunday School
Union ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church,
will beheld in, the. City of. Pittebur.l 'on
the 3d Sabbath of October
CONGREGATIONAL,
The 14. Hubbard Winsiow,i) D., au
thor of Itirellectual and Moral Philosophy,
died at Williston, Vermont, his native
place, on August 18th. Efa was a grad a
ace of Yale, of the class of 1825. In 1829:
he was settled as pastor of a Church in
Dover, New Hampshire, and -in 1832 ai
pastor of the Bowdoin Street church; BoS
ton. From 1814 to 1853 he had charge of
a young ladies' seminary in Boston, and
after traveling in Europe he finally settled
in New-York in 1859.
Rev. Myron Winslow, D.D., the erni
fent and. learned missionary, in India, is
his brother; and we have recently record
ed the death of another brother, Rev. Dr_
Chapla n in the United States
Army.
The Rev. George W. Wood, D.D., the
New York Secretary of the American
Board, has returned to this country after
an absence or twenty months in Constanti
nople. He came through Austria and
Germany. During his absence he visited the
missions of the Board in Central Turkey,
and has also visited other parts of the East
ern world in promoting the interest of the
Board and its missions.
The Congregational Churches of New-
Hampshire have passed a resolution recom
mending- the union or different, denomina
tions in support of a minister where neitht r
is able to do it alone, and commended
the plan to 'the attention of other denomi
-
nations.
LUTHERAN.
The Lutheran, and .Atissiiinary says that
" Rev. James . A. Brown, D.D., of York, Pa.,
.was unanimously elected to the chair made
vacant in the Theological Seminary at Get
tysburg by the resignation of Rev. S. S.
SchtnuckEr, D.D. Dr. Brown; is known as
a man of fine abilities, of inflexible consci
entiousness, and of untiring industry, His
scholarship is of a high order, his mind
clear and logical, and, if he takes the im
portant post assigned him, he will leave
nothing undone that seems to him adapted
to promote the thorough theological train
ing of his pupils. As one of his earliest
and warmest friends in the ministry, and
as an admirer of his fine intellectual, per
sonal and religious qualities, we wish him,
from the depth of our heart, happiness and
blessing in his important sphere. We felt
it a privilege to bear an . humble part as a
friend in exposing the malevolence which
attempted his injury at the time of his re
turn from the South, where his course had
been so manly and noble; and now that
one of the very highest honors and tokens
of confidence which our Church can confer
has been given him, we congratulate him
with a pleasure as fervent as it is pure."
EPISCOPAL.
"Rev. Wm. 11. Snively, formerly pastor
of the Penn Street Methodist , church, in
Pittsburgh, has become a successor of the
Apostles, by uniting with the Episcopal
Church. '
The Right Rev. Dr. Anderson, Bishop
of Rupert's Land—a diocese which extends
over 300,000 square miles—is on his way
to England to resign his Episcopal office.
For the Pre&byterian Banner
Church Dedication.
Oa Sabbath, August 14th, the new Pres
byterian church of Elderton, Pa., was ded
icated to the worship. and service of Al
mighty God. Rev. A. Donaldson, D.D.,of El
dersridge, Pa. f offered the dedicatory prayer,
and preached the sermon, founded on. Isaiah
60 chapter, last clause of 7th verse—" And
I will glorify the house of my glory."
The Dr.'s theme was, " The house of God
glorified." A large and interested audi
ence was present. Rev. John Stark, of
Whitesbay,. and Rev. M. M. Shirley, of
Shelocta, were present, and took part in
the interesting exercises of the day. .
The building is a substantial frame, and
in these " troublous times," the people
have given of their means and labored to
gether with great unanimity until they
have seen a neat and beautiful house of
worship erected to the honor and glory of
God's holy name. The pecuniary affairs
of the congregation are in a healthy condi
tion. When " the Lord shall count, when
he writeth up the people," may it be found
to have been the spiritual birth-place of
many a precious soul. , W.F.M.
Varieties.
Our tax-bill levies imposts on 3,450 arti
cles, whild England taxes only twenty-four
articles, and gets a revenue from them of
$210,000,000. From wines, liquors, tobac
co, and the license to sell them, she gets
$135,000,000.:
The St. Paul Press says the hot weather
has pushed the corn ahead in that vicinity
in a remarkable manner, and in another
week it will be beyond the reach of
frost. It will be such a crop as has per
haps never before gladdened the farmers
of Minnesota, and will soon be ready to be
harvested.
, The Valley of the Nile, with more than
three hundred villages in its course, and as
far up as the First Cataract, over eight
hundred miles from the sea, is open tbr
Bible distribution, and is visited by our
missionaries and native helpers to the very
utmost their strength and time will allow.
English Jews and Catholics.—There are
about 50,000 Jews in Ehgland, and there
are five or six Jews in parliament w - ho rep
resent Englieh constituencies. There are
about 2,000,000 Catholics in England, and
only one in Parliament who represents an
English constituency. This curious fact
is generally attributed to the wealth of the
Jews, and to the circumstance that they
do not acknowledge a foreign potentate.
By Official Order, all officers in the mili
tary service of the United States are direct
ed to render every facility to such express
companies as may be charged by the Gov
ernor of New York with the delivery of the
necessary forms and blanks required to se
cure the votes of soldiers of the State in
the field, with a view to the blanks being
delivered with the least possible delay.
The Boston Journal speaks as follows of
the recruits obtained abroad for that city ;
"They are not only physically a fine set of
men, but they appear to be deeply interest
ed in our struggle with aristoeraoy and
slavery. They are infinitely superior as a
class to the majority of those who are
hawked about by substitute brokers, and
will remain faithful to their engagements
and true to the flag under which they have
enlisted. Most of them have had military
experience."
Vital statistics of "Paris,—The returns re
cently pubhshed give the population of
the city of Paris at 1.696,151; number of
deaths last year, 42,186. The - ratio of mor
tality, it will be - seen, is about the saps as
that of New-York, where the population
slightly exceeds one million, and , the num
ber of deSths in 1863 was reported at 25,-
196. The French capital is divided into
twenty-one arrondissements, each of which
has a mayor: Number of irths last year,
52,382-26,505 boys, 25,507 girls. Of
this number 14,501 were illegitimate. The
ntunbor of marriages was 15,911.."
Population
Population of the Earth.—A. Profess -r of
the University of Berlin has recently pub
lished the result of hiiresearehes as to the
population of the earth; according to which
Europe . contains 272,000,000; Asia, 720,-
000,000; Africa, 89,000,000; America,
200,000,000; rind Polynesia, 2,ooo;ooD—
making a grand total of 1,288,000,000 of
inhabitants. As -in places where deaths
are aocurately registered, the annual mor
tality is ato least one in forty, the number
of death& must be about 82,000,000 every
year, which gives 87,761 per day, 3,653
per hour, and 61. per minute, so that evr
,econd a itnesses the extin3tion of onc t
man lite. Another cal Ailator states tit... 7.
the number of persons who have' lived 0 „
the earth since the creation, is 36,6 9 7,.m_
275,075,855 :--aalignani.
American Board of missions.—By the
sionary ileralti for August we learn that
in some places most gratifying efforts to,
making to relieve the Board irom it, ent•
barrassment. The Home Secretary stat e ,
that the receipt of $115,00 1 1 will be nreited
within the present month if the year is t o
close without serious deficiency. Withi n a
few days the Treasurer has received ss.ttue
from Providence, and $5,000 from Hartford.
In a small church of about eighty members,
in the vicinity of Boston, an extra euntii
bution was taken in July, amounting to
near $1,300. The same people had already
given to the Board within the year more
than $1,400. Anything , like a general
movement of this kind would give the
Board all the funds it needs.
Personal.
Qum Dowager Emma, of the Sandwich
Islands, morner. Krug .Kainchatuetia V.,
intends visiting Europe.
Dr. Livingstone has returned to London,
and expects to give to the world another
volume of his African experienc s. At
the meeting of the British Association, to
be held at Bith.on the 14th of September,
the great traveller will give some account
of hii last adventures.
Log George, of Greece, during his 'at,:
tour through his kingdom, requested, vu
his arrival at Missolonghi, to be shown By
r.m's tomb, and on observing its dilapidated
condition, gave orders for the immediate
repair of the poet's monument.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have
laid the corner stone of a monument to be
erected at the Royal Victoria Hospital at
Netley, near Southampton, to the memory
of the medical officers who died in the
Crimean war.
Mr. John Mullaly, editor and proprietor of
the Metropolitan Record, New-York, w as
arrested last*Friday morning, and brough t
before United Scates,Commissioner
on a charge of opposing and counselin z re
sistance to the conscription. Mr. .MuHaly
is an Irishman by birth, from the town et
Bray, near Dublin. He came to this CUUD
try sixteen or seventeen years ago, and af
ter obtairfing a fair education, was employ.
ed in subordinate positions on one or two
city papers. He then studied phottograpli,
and became a short-baud repofter, spiel,
profession he followed until •four or iive
years ago, when he-stavted the Metropoli'e
Record, as an Irish Catholic paper.
Meade and Burnside.—ln alluding to the
difficulty between Generals Meade and
Burnside, the Providence Journal says the
latter, being the subordinate, preferred ; us
he always does, to sacrifice himself rather
than to embarrass the army in the field by
any controversy. He tendered his resig
nation, which General. Grant refused, and
also refused to relieve him. Gen. Grant
then offered him twenty days' leave of 'Ab
sence, by virtue of which he is at home.
In announcing the death of the late John
Grigg, of Philadelphia, the Publishers'
Circular says that he did more for the book
trade of the Uuited States than any other
man ever engaged in it. Mr. Grigg was a
native of England, but came to this city
when very young. He retired from the
publishing business in 185 D. He was sev
enty-two years old on the day of his death
—the 2d inst. The Philadelphia publish
ers adopted a 'series of resolutions which
speak in high terms of his personal and
business character. •
Mr. G. P. Putnam says, through the Pub
lishers' Cis cular, that he is still the pub
lisher of all of Irving's writings; that his
contract for them, to pay a full copyright
on all of them, has just been renewed for
five years; that his interest in the works
remains substantially, the same as ever,
Messrs. Hurd & Houghton having merely
undertaken, for two years, to print and pro
m)te the sale; and that all these early
works were revised,and large additions made
to some of them, by the author in 1848-9,
when the copyright was renewed.
Literary.
The first authentic work in English, on a
subject of some Scriptural interest, often
referred to, has just appeared in London—
" History of Jewish. Coinage, and of Money,
in the Old and New Testament,"—by Fred
erick Madden, of the British Museum. It
is in one volume, copiously illustrated
from actual existing specimens in the cabi
nets of numismatics' collectors.
The " History of Publishers," on which
William Chambers, the author-publisher,
has been engaged more than two years, will
soon appear in two octavo volumes, pro
fusely illustrated.
he American Publishers' Circular states
that Mr. William A. Wheeler has for same
years been engaged upon " An Explanatory
and Pronouncing Dictionary of the biame3
o ' Noted Fictitious Persons and Places;
including also celebrated Pseudonyms, Sur
names'.bestowed upon Eminent Men, and
such analogous Popular Appellations as arc
often winded to in Literature and Conver
sation."
mt. Stritner has in press, from advance
sheets of the English edition, a reprint of
the second series of Professor Max Muller's
Lectures on the Science of Language, de
livered at the Royal Institution, London.
The Levane Herald states that Sheikh
Faris Effendi Shediak, the editor of El
Jaouib, is engaged in translating into Ara
bic, Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire," which is subsequently to
be rendered into Turkish, and published at
the expense of his Excellency Sabhi Bey.
The Athenmum, says that Miss Whately is
preparing herself to write. a life of Arch
bishop Whately; a work which will be
founded on his own letters and papers, all
of which the prelate bequeathed to her.
This lady is the writer of "English Syn
onyins," a work commonly ascribed to the
archbishop himself, as well as of other
works. The proposed' life will be the only
one sanctioned by the family. Nearly
three years ago, an unusually bad juke
being attributed to his grace in one of the
Irish papers, he remarked, "I think I ough t
t 3 walk about with my back chalked, 'Rub
bish shot ilea!"
TWO has recently been discovered in
Spain a document of some interest to the
liteyary history of that country. It is the
receipt fur 112,500 niaravedis, paid by the
Fathers of the Trinity for the ransom of
tbe author of " Don Quixote," Michael Cel
vantes, then a prisoner in the hands of the
Moors. The receipt states that the prisoner
was then thirtythree years of age, and had
lost his left arm.
' An autograph of Tasso, written when the
poet of the Gerusatenme Libtrata was in
his twenty-sixth year, was sold in Paris
very recently. it is worded as follows:
"I, the undersigned, hereby acknowledize
to have received from Abraham Levi :25
Imre, for' which he holds in pledge a sword
of my father's; 6 shirts, 4 sheets, and 2
table covers. March 2, 1570. Torquato
Tasso."
The Harvard College Library in Gore
Hall possesses now 100,000 volumes ' be
sides 75,000 to 80,000 pamphlets. The
libraries of the Divinity and Law Schools
would increase the number of volumes to
160 000.