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Pittsburgh Presbyterian Banner (Newspaper) - December 7, 1861, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaUnis i j. Auason.8. L1ttlk it \vi1> my Kinney amp go. Editors and proprietors. Terms in subscriptions. Advance. 125 urn in Uit reit tab Nitiss. 2.00 o i dollars to Witt Send by malt seventy number n i not to Unity Throe numbers. I Linic a Tatj Vav subscribers and Ultra urdu will a. I a s frit Itlo to paper without charge. Houghl to Prem it a Little before the year expires Ines my Terfu Iliad or by mail. I ail letters to David he Kinney amp �,0., Pittsburgh a. For Tho presbyterian resolutions. The committee of trustees on the fund Pur disabled ministers have made during he year some of their largest up Propri Lions to presbyteries on the ground of their Estiu Tiosh to make collections. The application of their stated clerk has been attended with what the committee regarded As an Assurance that if the request of the presbytery were granted they night rely on being of in part at feast by the contributions of their he Orch a a same of the pledges Given almost a ear ago Are not yet redeemed Presb Tepes among the most numerous and wealthy f our Church have drawn from the fund Tore than they have contributed. Many Lave failed to make any collections at All. Pie result is such a depletion of our Trens iry As has not been known before. This is he season of the year Whon we have been eau stored to give Relief to some of our most interesting applicants. This we shall be impelled to withhold if the promised 00v actions Are postponed much longer. Or treasurer has no evidence that Many burches remembered the wants of disabled of ministers on the first Sabbath in septem eras recommended by the committee on a Stomatio Benevolence and enjoined by he general Assembly. In View then of he urgency of this matter the committee Ifould propose that another and not very Distant Day be selected in place of the one Pat has gone by and that contributions be bade with the least possible delay. J the committee would regret that to the Dan i fold trials of old age severe disease fed Domestic grief should be added the i ant of bread. In behalf of the committee j. H. Jones chairman. Vol. X., no. 12. Pittsburgh. Saturday dec Ember 7. 1861. Whole n0�?~. 480. Ati Guthe close of his remarks he presented or. A with a Little bouquet of wild Flowers gathered by himself on mount Blanc the wish a a that the Friendship begun in a far off land now cemented by Christian love would continue into that other far off land from which no traveller after the singing of a grand Anthem in Fine style by the choirs of the two churches the whole Assembly adjourned to a Large Ball in the City to partake of a magnificent supper which had Leen prep Are a by the ladies of the first Church. Probably eight Hundred people Pai took of the Bupper. It has been a really joyous and Happy occasion. The pastor s heart is refreshed by so Many cheering evidences of affection. He feels strengthened for future work and the hearts of his people Are knit to him in Bonds closer than Ever. Ion. For tha presbyterian Celebration in the first presbyterian Church Steubenville. A a it is just Twenty five years last Sabbath a nce the Rev. Or. H. G. Comingo began is ministrations in the first presbyterian Tureh Steubenville and the interesting ocasion was celebrated in a becoming Tanner. Jat a meeting of the congregation it was dived that we celebrate the a a a ter Cen Mial anniversary of the pastoral relation a or. H. G. Comingo As pastor of our Hurch and that we extend an invitation a i the several ministers of All the Evangeli Churchea of this City and to the co negation of the second presbyterian lurch the congregation of the second Torch United with the first in the exer is of the occasion. On the. Morning of the Sabbath or. Congo preached an instructive and eloquent course to a crowded House from psalms Uii 5�?�?o i remember the Days of amp a. The preacher first Drew a contrast Between outgoing and incoming Quarter of a in Tury. He then proceeded to notice providential circumstances that brought to this Field and the inner working of own mind in Here remaining. He gave account of the Rise of the various inches of the City and a grief glance at past of the first Church. There had tin in this charge seven remarkable re Ais since 1831. Two churches had been in Aniced from this one since 18s7, and al Hough there had been a Large number of ovals and deaths yet now there were Guty members More than in 1837. The sole number of members added since the a animation of this Church in 1801 is Treen Hundred and seven of these Jet Hundred and five have been added ring the last Quarter Century about a Hundred thousand dollars had from this Church into the various a panels of Benevolence. A a the review of i past Twenty five years a said the preach a affords much for thanksgiving but ire for profound humiliation on the part the he then recurred to Many in the pleasant things of his pastorate and i some of the Mournful things and so matters and things Learned m a pastorate Twenty five years. He closed with a a Nee at the Frand the final a Emil r the end of time. The Imp Romulu Lxi us Tho discourse was deep and solemn. R. C. C. Beatty the predecessor of or. Bingo As pastor of the first Church been invited by the session to fill the pit in the evening but failed to be pres Fon account of indisposition. Rev. J. Atterson of the second Church preach Finstead an admirable Sermon from the it a no Man liveth to himself. Quot n the continuance of the exercises of this Ofui occasion a meeting was appointed to held in the first Church on the tues i evening following. When the rapport hour had arrived the House was filled a a deeply interested audience. The exercises were opened with prayer the Rev. M. Abbott of the methodist Fote Stant Church. An address was then in by or. Beatty in which he presented a Strong Light the great advantages of pkg pastorate and deprecated the ten a by to change so common in our times. A bore Strong testimony to the great sex Olence of or. Comingo As a preacher a Stor and As a brother greatly beloved. I or. Drennen on behalf of the officers Ltd congregation of the first Church then a seated to or. Comingo a purse it Gold a handsome suit of clothes As a Testi Uncial of their love for him and their attitude to him for his abundant and Faith ii labors since he had been their pastor. The doctor in accepting the gift said at he had generally been a a Looker on a Yie Nua a and he now. Found that to be a observed of All observers was rather a a trial to his modesty. He said that Nile he Felt conscious that Ever baht them and not theirs the flock and the fleece yet this evening he Sud by found himself in Possession of the be and that the finest of the Wool nay fee without becoming an Argonaut he id himself in Possession of the Golden Ece. He Felt that there were Circum fees in which even st. Paul would �0-ledge that it a is a great thing that should reap your carnal things a in it be tokens so clearly the Good feel and affection of a grateful people to pastor. If a cup of cold water Given a disciple in the name of a disciple ild not be without it Reward then in Reward was sure. Several Short addresses were now made Kcf. J. B. Patterson of the second Church 1 he and his wife the second Church had be Back to spend a pleasant eve eng with sir Mother. The was from the first Church it was de Gotful to them on the too asian of Joy and Ness to meet once More at the old july Hearth. The Rev. Or. Andrews of p United presbyterian Hureh. And the or. Christian of the episcopal i cd also made addresses appropriate to occasion. Prof. Reid of the a Teuben female Seminary gave a pleasant re science of his first meeting with or. Bingo in the valley1 of Chaumont in Erland. He described the scene of first meeting in the presence of it Blanc and the , Gaffe first impression of the strip of go Randa of the doctor s conversation Sug by the glorious scene Tya Rdavid them. European Quot correspondence. Is Hutu att �tait�?T8 assaot.�?1ibs Elko of Prussia a Jed a Liberal Irel Asb ask the ashes of a a spa Imoto a Franois Joseph. He Soarf Ard Garibaldi Cal lbs versus Mach ale preaching in a London theatre rationalism rebuked a doctor Lushi Notony so judo Mentz a or. Heaths heres Analyse us reflections to a Ereon the Tea carians bust and South blebs tar Vouno menus Christian association the Winters course of lectures postscript. London. Nov. 8, 1861. Venetia attached not Rome such it is now indicated by the Turin correspond int of the times is Napoleons programme next year. One can Well suppose that one so astute and cunning and placed in such difficulties what Between the devotee impress the Pope and the clergy and the reproaches if not the threats of his old friends the Carbonari of Italy an oath awful in its character binding his soul and its violation exposing him to a Dagger As deadly As would have been that of Omni had it reached his heart that his mind is Oft distracted. England treats him with coldness if not contempt her press accuses him of basest selfishness and Liberal Europe forgets All that he has done in their anger at his neglecting what he ought to do. France itself is dissatisfied and inasmuch As there is a. Financial disaster there what could galvanize an artificial life and Prosperity like the Prospect of another War and a loan on its Hank in Small sums to which As in 1859�?the people would Rush in crowds and at once fill the Treasury f and then the French army will not remain quiet for Ever. What will he do with it Quot is the question asked about this army by our Clever and Able weekly the London review. If there were a general War with Germany Russia ? and Austria on the one Side and France and Italy on the other it would thoroughly change the face of things and give Napoleon the Long coveted Opportunity of crossing the King of Prussia has taken some pains to show that when he spoke of his receiving his Crown a a from god a he did not mean to endorse the usual blasphemy of despots. He avows that he spoke in a spirit of humility and under a deep conviction both of his responsibility and of his dependence on the almighty. He. Is not a very clearheaded individual but is honest and upright. He says he a hates All extremes a a revolution on the one hand Ultra conservatism on the other. In proof of his Liberal tendencies his Cabinet has just issued programme of measures which will largely enfranchise the people and inevitably reduce the Power of the Nobles and the tory landholders. She King it was supposed had entered into a secret and perilous Paet with Napoleon but that is not the ease. Even the treaty of Commerce so much talked of in France and which was to bring the two together is not Likely to be carried out and Tkv to from the bases proposed by Prussia being not acceptable to France. On the other hand the King of Prussia does not. As was reported meet Tim i Joseph of Austria in confidential colloquy. Prussia Aims to be at the head of Germany an Empire and not a. Kingdom. Austria hates and fears heir and some smaller principalities and a states support her views. But Austria never can oppose a successful resistance to Prussia which has the grand advantage of being a protestant Power. Austria indeed Aims at iving her Motley provinces and Peoples government but this after All will be almost a name and As to Hungary the last act but one of a base and barbarous policy has now been enacted by the abolition of ail local hungarian authority at Perth and the placing of the people under military Law. And so the emperor writes an autograph letter containing language Fri Rich he will one Day be made to reckon for. He pleads of course the cause of a a Arder a treads Down the old Constitution of Hungary under his Iron Heel a a As the convocation of the hungarian diet in a constitutional Dieb seems impracticable until order is reestablished All the existing authorities in the comitts districts and companies Are abolished and count Forsack is ordered to select persons who will replace them. All person charged with crimes against Public order and safety she in by tried by military tribunals. It is now announced that Garibaldi takes a marked step in opposition to Mazzi and others who would precipitate a contest with Austria. He urges the continued armament of Italy. Oue of the greatest obstacles to this is found in the Fin an i 1 condition of the new kingdom. There has been for several years an enormous expenditure Many extravagant contracts As to Public works and above All go 0 there has been the. Waste of War in Days past and the enormous expense to which put by the insurrectionary condition of the neapolitan territory by reason of Bour Bonish plots and brigand expeditions prepared at Rome. Besides this the Southern italians detest the idea of Turin becoming the capital of Italy and have a hereditary contempt of the piedmontese the correspondents journals write discouraging on this Point. Nevertheless when Rome becomes Italy a capital All will be put right. Ireland presents a eurious spectacle at this moment in connexion with the bringing Home from California of the remains of Terrene s Bellas Mcmanus. He joined Bmith of Brien in his ridiculous and abortive attempt at insurrection in 1848. Was found guilty of High treason and his sentence was commute Flito transportation. He has lately died and some to maoists from that District resolved to bring borne his body. When it reached Cork the popish people followed the remains through the streets in Long procession. But no priest was visible no Romish Chapel was open to save even a night s resting place to Tho Corpse on its Way to Dublin. And in the capital itself the Sameey blk Sia Stival frown rested withering by on the funeral of one whom or. Machale secretly hates and ecclesiastic ally opposes As far. As possible. And so father Lavelle. One of the Mayo priests raises Irish Ulula Tus Over Macmanus. Coupled with a lamentation Over the conduct of the Cork and Dublin priests. Quot alas and alas i a a he says. A a that m Ireland there should be a second sentiment on his claims to a a tin a a Moho Ding and a it Iriondo gratitude. Good god Macmu offs denied a momentary resting place in any in Ireland of Why not have Broi Iglitz those sacred remains to the Fane of Jarlath. The Patriot died in peace with All except the enemy of All the cruel oppressor1 of his dear native la Ndu a that is to say England which might have hanged and did not which might have Kep him in prison and did to to. A a say it Malachi and st. Lawrence of Toole a Are also invoked and then cries priest Lavelle a a of Ireland Ireland thou fallen a finally he declares that a he will never enter Dublin without re sewing on the grave of Mcmanus a vow of hatred to England a a thy enemy and mine and the enemy of our Creed our country and our holy poor celtic portion of it is always lavishing its tears sympathy and admiration on objects rather mediocre at the Best As to value. Thus not Long since a female adventurer mrs. Yelverton was a popular idol and later still there was quite a furore in connexion with the trial of a Cabman who had assaulted a Young lady in a Gross manner and who was Eon viewed and sentenced to two years imprisonment. Popish feeling had in both cases some influence while or. Whiteside a protestant was the counsel his client mrs. Yelverton was a a a Pervert Quot to Rome and had lived in a Convent at Smyrna and because Curran the Cabman was a romanism he found subscriptions coming in from Cabman and false swearing in abundance in order if possible to free him from the he has of the Law. For his atrocious wickedness toward the protestant miss Jolly. Nay even or. Justice of Brien who when attorney general five or six years ago heard vehement and violent at a gathering in the Dublin Rotunda in reference to the proposed Bill for the inspection of Nunn eries in that spirit of a True papist professed to have no opinion at All about the evidence and when the prisoner was found guilty and he Wai compelled to pass sentence took care not to express his agreement with the jury. Services in Halls and theatres Are resumed. I was engaged in one of these on the evening of last lords Day at the Pavilion theatre Whitechapel Road. Half an hour before the appointed time a great crowd had gathered in front of the main Entrance and afterwards a vast Assembly occupied the House. The spectacle was most impressive and solemnizing. Nearly All joined in the hymns that were Sung there was an affecting silence during the offering of prayer and the Reading of the scriptures and a letter behaved and More attentive congregation i never addressed. The right kind too of people were present. Jews and gentiles Rich and. Poor old and Young boys and girls men an d women some with children in Aims a the me i forming a decided majority. These services More prize than Ever by to it London masses have been followed by ascertained results of the most Gratifying character and afford Opportunity to multitudes who wi7z hoi enter Ordinary places of worship but whose rags and wretchedness find Fellowship As it were in Kindred poverty All around in that a a pit or in those galleries to listen to the words of eternal life. As a whole the evangelical body Church and nonconformist hold the Sway in this matter. Neither to rotarians nor Irvi gites neither papists nor negative theologians have a message for the a a common people a a a the a a priest and the Church a on the one hand the hiding of the Cross and the ignoring of a True atoning sacrifice to meet the claimant accusations of guilty conscience on the other a neither of these so called teachers will do for the perishing and the poor. Rationalism has received a Check and rebuke in the judgment which has just been delivered by or Lus Bigton in the Arches ecclesiastical court. A suit was instituted some time since by the Bishop of Winchester in whose diocese the Rev. Or. Heath held a living of account of the printing and publication of a a sermons on important subjects a parts of which were alleged to contain doctrines repugnant to the articles of religion in violation of the statute of Elizabeth and in derogation of the Book of common prayer. Clergymen on their ordination their a a assent and consent a to the articles of religion and to the Book of common prayer. Or. Lushington is a Fine specimen of a Jurist and also a a Good English gentleman All of the Olden time a he is about eighty years of age. His intellect is remarkably Clear and As the arguments on the Case of or. Heath and con., were finished in june last he has taken advantage of the lawyers a a Long vacation a and has now come Lorth with an elaborate judgment. He referred in the outset to the much that had been said about Paley a idea of subscription to the thirty nine articles As a a articles of peace a and said that disquisition of this character afforded no assistance to a court of Justice. Its business is to examine the doctrines and see whether they Are in accordance with the articles and the prayer Book. He next adverted to the principles which should guide the court in All alleged cases of false doctrines and fell the general principles established by the privy Council the final Appeal in ecclesia steal cases on the celebrated Gorham Case which had been approved by two archbishops. There it had been Laid Down by lord Langdale that a in an Endeavor to ascertain the True meaning and effect of the articles form Laries and rubrics we must by no Means intentionally swerve from the old established rules of construction or depart from the principles which have received the Sanction and approbation of the most Learned persons in times past As being on the whole the Best calculated to determine the True meaning of the document to be examined. If these principles were not adhered to All the rights both spiritual and temporal of her majesty a subjects would be the judge admitted that considerable latitude had been allowed in times past to divines of different schools in the English Church but these matters of difference did not Bear on the present Case. Justification by Faich in the merits of Christ As affirmed in the 11th article was emphatically denied by or. Heath. In defining the meaning of that article or. Lushington said a first i hold with Bishop Burnet that what by justification was meant is being received into the favor of god secondly that the Merit of our b Vigour is the great cause of that reception thirdly and what on the present occasion was perhaps most important that the person so to be received must have Faith in the redemption of Jesus Christ. It must be Oto Ouw Faith a personal Faith. The words a a we justified by Faith Only a mean that such personal Faith is indispensable and that without it there can be no justification. The essence of the 11th article is Faith in the redeemer s merits in the. Person to be justified Quot All this clears the Way for giving an a Feu rate account of what or Heath s hexes really is. But May l not pause Herb arid refer for a moment to the awful perversion in tract no 90 the production indeed of or Newman but really endorsed by .sqin.e, at least who remain in the English Church a unchallenged wit regard to this vital matter of the a sinner before god. Nay is not the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Made by All High Church divines a sine qua. Non thus causing them to Lull their unconverted hearers the mass of them Rin a death like spiritual torpor destroying the distinction Bec weep the converted and unconverted in their preaching and in a word putting sacramental Grace both in baptism and the eucharist coupled with their doings As the ground of anal acceptance with god Faith. A direct personal Faith in the merits of Jmst ignored How i ask can these men be considered As giving their a a assent and consent to that Noble 11th article a a we Are accounted righteous before god Only for the ment of our lord. And Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own works or deserving. Wherefore that we Are justified by Faith Only is Anost wholesome doctrine and full of 1 but now let us see what or. Heaths special heresy is. It actually substitutes Christ s the father for the sinners Faith ill Christ himself a when says he a i talk of justification by Faith i mean justification by our Saviour s Trust in the father. The Saviour still trusts m our father As he always did he still has Faith and his Faith still works by love he still believes that he can put the world right and i believe so too a no wonder that or Lushington should say a a i am under the painful necessity of declaring that these doctrines cannot be reconciled with the Plain grammatical sense of the 11th Arti ele. I think that they Are contrary and repugnant thereto and i must pronounce the judge went on to refer to passages in the a sermons in which is he consid ered the forgiveness of sins a As set Forth in the apostles Creed and doctrines were taught contrary to the Athanasian and nicene Creed and violating the 6th, .10th, 11th, and 31st articles. Ihus at Page 117 of the a a sermons it is said a the More 1 study the Bible for myself the More astounding i find it How Many of the most modern phrases of modern theology have been foisted in without Sanction from the All Sufficing record of our religion. On after another no less than about Twenty ideas or phrases such As guilt of sin paying a penalty going to heaven going to hell in mortal qty of the soul Sah faction imputed righteousness appropriating the work of Christ necessary to salvation a and Many others have vanished from my system be cause As a minister of Christ studying these matters professionally i see them to be phrases and ideas not Only absent from scripture but darkening and confusing the clearest of the otherwise most intelligible and comforting statements of holy writ on this or. Lushington observes a now what says the second article ? that our Saviour died to reconcile us to the father and to be a sacrificed not Only for original guilt but also for the actual sins of men-1 really cannot comprehend How any intelligible meaning could be affixed to his article if a guilt of so is to be removed from Ali Christian doctrine. I cannot conceive the idea of actual sin without there being guilt of sin. I will not dwell on other expressions said to be repugnant to the creeds i View the whole of the passage a.ton., and leg Xvi it. I think the words used contain a doctrine if it is to be so called utterly irreconcilable with the creeds. A a the 31st article is next to be cd mid ered. Or. Heath dismisses from his system the immortality of the a jul so Tiff in Tion imputed righteousness is darkening and confusing. Now the 31st article says g of Christ was a perfect satisfaction for All the sins of the world. To deny satisfaction altogether whatever May be its meaning As mr.1 Heath has done cannot be Laken in any other sense than a denial of the Worth of the article a a i am compelled by a sense of duty to declare that i have no other alternative but to pronounce a judgment Eon Deming or. Heath As guilty of the charges preferred against a the judge wound up As Folly ass a a before concluding i think it right to explain Why i done to advert to. The Many authorities which the Zeal and learning of counsel have produced. My reason is this that in my judgment not one of these authorities does that which was required in their Case namely show that Somaf divine of Eminence has held without reproach from ecclesiastical authority doctrines in substance the same As those which or. Heath has promulgated. Whatever opinions May have been held in the vast Field of polemical divinity find none which can support or Heath or justify him. In the Gorham Case the judicial committee had the advantage of being Able to quote in support of their judgment and in justification of or. Gorham passages from the writings of divines of tie highest authority. A a i cannot conclude without observing that i am Well aware of the fallibility of my own opinion and especially in so Peculiar a Case As the present but 1 have endeavoured first to make Clear the principles which i intended should govern me and secondly to show plainly How i apply those principles to the Case before me. If i have erred in either particular the judgment of the Superior court me. It May be however that Many will think that though legally right this judgment Recognises too severe restrictions on the clergy and shuts the door against inquiry and disquisition which might tend to elucidate the truth. Now even if this were soft is not for a court of Justice to open a door which the legislature has shut. It is contrary to All sound principles for a court to seek As has been formally done by some judges ingenious subterfuges to the Law and that upon a notion of its Power to discover what is Best and most convenient. Us ohm a course is. I1 think not Only contrary to principle but would be most injurious in its effects. For All such attempts to wrest the Law according to supposed consequences invariably tend to postpone a remedy if there be a real evil. If there he Bonds which press heavily on the clergy As to which i give no opt do on i repeat that the legislature imposes them and the legislature alone can Loose them a pronounce against or time was Given by the court to give or. Heath Opportunity of he has also Power to Appeal to the privy Council. A 1 think it will be a pleasant and invigorating thing f minister al readers to a read an analysis of or ims Hington a judgment and besides that i am justified in dwelling on it Beca Iise it Awni ens so Many thoughts and few Lings in Connexions with the present condition of that a extraordinary a a composite and Compromise a the Church of England. We Are reminded by or. Lushington of the decision in. The Gorham Case by which it was settled that those who held that infant baptism was always and by re Genera Tiou. And those. Who denounced this As a deadly heresy were alike Good churchmen 1, the record Ever since has ceased its groaning be Ause the ecclesiastical courts have pronounced1 what it he a a ate a is land as1 for the evangelical clergy As a body think to be thought of. A and thus the Liying and the dead the Blind and the seeing the halt and the erect and vigorous travellers Are All elassed1 together. A next while or. Mcnaught of Liverpool has resigned his charge Are there not others who hold doctrines almost if not More rationalistic than he it is cheering to find this Heath heresy put Down although it-bears1 on the face of it Stich Absurdity that few will embrace it. But after All in the denial of the�-1 guilt of sin paying a penalty satisfaction propitiation ,&c., we see that the current of his thoughts run precisely m the same Channel with those of the a essayists nay that professor to wet to and even Canon Stanley Are by no Means free from the charge of undermining these grand old truths. 1 Etc numbers of this class Ever increasing will Remata unscathed and untried and thus the vitals of the National Church will continue to be preyed upon by her own children. I have already noticed the tra Tanan extreme and there has been a recent example of it where a new Bishop about to go to the it Sandwich islands let the american missionaries look out has been taking part in Semi popish and pub elite Mumme Ries in connexion with the consecration of a. New Church m the same diocese of the same Bishop of Winchester who has pros Eluted the . Heath. The Bishop inn evangelical but see his weak less and the. False position in which he is placed powerless and apparently assenting because he has no statute and ecclesiastical Law to full Back upon 1 the Young menus Christian a so Chat Ion have secured a hand of very Emi neat persons to deliver the Winter Senes of lectures m Exeter Hall. The Well known Christian philosopher Isaac Taylor delivers the first on a a France and England eighty years ago a and will be followed by the Rev t Martin or Thompson the Bisho prefect of Gloucester the Rev. A b. Mackenzie. Edward Corderoy esq., Rev. Henry Allen Rev. C. H. Spurgeon Rev Canon. Boyd Rev. Drs. Magee Cand Lish and Miller and Rev. W. Morley up amp soon. Thompson a Mackenzie and Cor Deroy Deal respectively with a a Anglo Saxon christianity and Augustine of Canterbury a a Anglo Norman christianity and Anselum Loli Ardy and w Hile or. Allen lecture on Church song a and be Roeom pained by illustrations of the people s worship m ancient and. Modern times the Mit Ezeal examples being Sung by a choir of <9oe Hundred voices. As four of the lectures Bear on the rationalist heresy of be Day a or. Boyd treating of a the a rite Ion of truth or. Magee of a a the uses Iffla l prophecy or. Candlish of a Mir Acree and or. Miller of Birmingham taking As his theme a a the new testament narratives real not or. Punshon will deliver a characteristic oration on a a Macaulay. A the a i Letual treat thus furnished is very �-1011 ample and varied and very sea enable too and bearing on the a present truth a Are Many of the topics of the lecturers. Jew p. times disapproves of the style of lord Lyon s letter to or. Seward and thinks that the parties arrested were not free from suspicion at the same time it is not in mature Accord with or. Seward a red a Contin yes to maintain its general position a. At Moscow abut Twenty five students were Cut Down by the brutal soldiery. Ouly forty students attended at the reopening of the University of st. Petersburg. Thine Hundred students have been sent to cry Ustadt As prison hrs. Out of the 1,600 students who attended the lectures of the University last term 6 0 Are in prison 300 Are at Warsaw and from 600 to 700 a re Inore a less at Liberty. The emperor has a badly a Riyad from the Crimea. Let us Hope that his kind heart will get the my Story in this crisis that having seen the week and waste of War at Sebastopol he will avoid Pray being it at Home and tit having emancipated in the face of recalcitrant Nobles millions of serfs he will Fhi Tiloff giving something like a Constitution to his people a of Pecasse a heresy Iusie no stereotyped of heat no 1 that is not nomm Huffy m that there selected a a Mark the soft falling Mark the soft falling Snow and the Diffusive rain to heaven from whence it fell it turns not Back again hut Waters Earth through every pore and Calls Forth All. Its secret store. Arrayed in beauteous Green the Hills and valleys Shine and Man and beast is fed by Providence divine the Harvest bows its Golden ears the copious seed of future years. A so a sail a the god of Grace a a my gospel shall descend almighty to effect the purpose i intend millions of souls. Shall feel its Power and Bear it. Down to millions More. A a a joy1 shall begin your March and peace protect your ways while All the mountains round Echo melodious Praise the vocal Groves shall sing to god and every tree consenting a Philip Doddridge. Heavens Light in dark some dwellings. Combined and systematic efforts to instruct and train children of a weak mind is of recent origin. Scarcely any attempt m3 made before the beginning of the pres est Century and few of the existing institutions Are More than ten years old. If we have been later in beginning this department of philanthropy we should now work All the More Vigo Rosiy to make up our leeway. Former generations of the imbecile were permitted to grow up corrupt and corrupting hurting themselves and shocking the passengers on the Public highways. Of late years a a veil. Has been drawn1 decently Over that open sore by the removal of those workhouses Andot ier phases of Sherter. This though an improvement on the barbarous practice of the past is Oul the a half and that the lower half of our duty i la i Switzerland Franca England and. Also to borne extent in Scotland As Well As in our , systematic efforts have of late years been made with an encouraging measure of Success for the mental and non to training of imbecile children. A in one of our states whose ease is pot worse tap that of other countries but Only More accurately known there Are 1, 087 idiots in a Gross population of1,225, 000, which gives the proportion it of about one in a thousand and this is exclusive of 2,632 persons who same. Is one person of either unsound or feeble mind to it every 302 of the general population. In Scotland As nearly As can be ascertained1, there Are about 2,236 imbeciles and of these about 600 Are of an age suitable for being admitted into educational institutions. We largely know any greater luxury to a tender and pure mind than the history of some of these eases. If doing Good in Ordinary forms be to a Christian like meat and drink the successful introduction of these helpless children to a measure of civilized habit and intellectual Light and moral purity and Christian Hope is like a cordial to the spirit both Sweet and restoring. Reader have you Ever when somewhat weary sat Down to rest on a Stone by the Wayside in a warm summer Day ? and As you mused Happy and half dreamy have you observed a Flower at your feet much crashed by a atone that had accidentally fallen upon it while it was in Bud struggling ineffectually to escape from the pressure twisting its body and crushing its petals in the Effort ? you stretched out your hand of course and lifted off Tho Stone and saw the flowered Spring up and look into a our face As if it were glad and grateful. When you Rose and resumed your journey ruminating on what you had done you Felt happier a because of doing it. A j the spirit of these imbeciles were Sweet Flowers a Bud and some fall in infancy or some Boorman outgrowth about the brain has Lam there a dead weight and crushed them As the Stone crushed the wild Flower on the i Wayside. The benevolent Are trying to lift the pressure off and so enable these immortal Floweres Ere it be too late to open their bosoms to the Light. A go and help them that you May enjoy with them the Peculiar Delight of helping these helpless Little ones. Jesus loved to relieve them so should Way and Ian a Way. God says seek be first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and All these earthly things shall be added unto you. / / Man says seek first worldly wealth and Fame and Power j religion you can get on a dying a bed. God says open thy Mouth sideband i will fill it. Man says let prayer go and work for what you want. God says give Aud it shall be Given unto you Good measure pressed Down and shaken together and running Over shall men give into your bosoms. Man says Charity begins at lib me. Why give to others that for which you have toiled so hard your own family May want it. God says whatsoever be would that men should do to you do be even so to them. Man says my own interests first. God says Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth but Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. A Man says make sure your worldly treasures. Heaven is a Long Way off. God says Whoso hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother have need and shut Teth up his bowels of compassion from him How dwell eth the love of god in him Man says what guarantee have i if i give my earnings to the poor that i shall not come to want myself god says there is that scatter eth and yet increase eth. Man says it is Only by saving and hoarding what you have that it will increase. A. Reader what says your conscience ? is not gods Way better than Many a ? this word which is used in the psalms seventy four times and thrice in the prophecy of Habakkuk must have some significant meaning and yet there seems to be much doubt in reference to the matter. It is a hebrew word which the translators have lefts they found it because they could not agree its to its meaning. The targum and in st of the jewish commentators give to it the word the meaning of eternally forever. The voice of the septuagint translation appears to have regarded it As a musical or rhythmical note. Herner regards it As indicating a change of tone Matheson As a Inu Sical note equivalent perhaps to the word repeat. According to Luther and others it is equivalent to the exclamation silence Nesenius say Selah Means a a let the instruments play and the singers Woofer regards it As equivalent to sur sum Corda up my soul Sommer after examining All the seventy four passages in which the word occurs recognizes in every Case a a an actual Appeal or summons to Jehovah they Are Calls for Aid and prayer to be heard expressed either with entire directness or if not in the imperative a hear Jehovah a and the like still Earnest addresses to god that he would remember and hear a Etc. The word itself he regards As indicating a blast of trumpets by the priest. Selah itself he thinks is an abridged expression used for Higgason indicating the sound of the stringed instruments and Selah a vigorous blast of trumpets. Some think the word Marks the beginning of a new sentence or a new measure of verses and others that it joins what follows to that which goes before and shows that what has been said deserves always to be remembered. Some have thought Selah showed the cessation of the actual inspiration of the psalmist and others that it is simply a note to indicate. The Elevation of the voice still others that it is equivalent to a a amen a a a be it so a or a a let it . The effect of fret ulness is seen not Only in the temper and in the spirit hut in the voice and in the aspect of the face. Hear that woman a cracked and shrieking tone pitched in a falsetto plaintive wheezing whine More disagreeable than the grating of a Rusty door huge or the filing of a saw,.or the creaking of a broken chair or the chewing of unexpected gravel in the Teeth 1 is that the human voice ? such a voice Jeard in a House is worse than the smell of Brimstone and. It operates like a. Perpetual mildew to rot out All Energy and peace and Hope from the hearts of. The whole household servants children companions and lovers see that face with an Eye glaring but not Lustrous the Glare of wet Putty not. Of keen steel or cold ice a look at the pinched nostril Sharp and yet dulled. Mark that scowl irresolute and responding uneven,.and yet deep As though ,.by drizzly North East Fig. Behold that upper lip. Curled but not stiffened with nerveless soon and filled., but not controlled by impotent hate read the picture of self torture and Force less despondency upon the whole count Enante and toll us if fret ulness that can so transform the human face divine from the. Image of All heavenly Beauty into such a changing Wishy Washy mask of mud be not a crime against our common humanity of the deepest meanest kind ? does it not Dishonour the maker of All souls and be Dies and Doest it not destroy both the a inward spirit Aud tie outward form of a Man or woman i we Bay then do Stop the Prtt Tob at Tes la is bytes a aet to a he teb a air to sell a lots Jiromi As claw a a cd. Cd a it of Ial a it a i Evn duo additional sss�i0�55�& a two a amp amp year. A Psi a Tot Ces of a in Uclea to a Leal 1.00 la a re 10 left a 9 Tif a Censa. Riave a a co., Parfel Brora and Poallo so pcs. Once. Setyo or face As a Flint against it and resolutely refuse to fret at what you cannot cure. Direct your energies if you have any and if you have not any Pray to your maker to give you some against the evils in the world in the Way of Pareti Eal work and not in the Way of impracticable fretting and a worrying and wearing yourself out and souring your temper and vexing your friends and Disho Noring your. God. We have spoken a few Plain words because we think them needed and our prayer is that they May be read and heeded. A Western advocate. A Baa dig 1. It is an purely of a worldly nature encouraged and kept up by the world. As such the Church should stand aloof from it and not conform itself to the . Xii r 2. 2. Its natural. The Oderey is to excess going As it generally does beyond the Bounds of propriety. A a 3. It dissipates the mind diverts it from the great object of life units us for serious and holy meditation is us favourable to growth in Grace diminishes interest in religious duties and has in numberless in st hts tvs b Een an1 effectual Means for quenching the spirit. 4. It always Lowers professing christians in the estimation of their fellow men and invariably produces trouble and difficulty in the Church. 5. Those who engage in it have themselves doubts of its propriety. No one could reconcile it with his conscience to participate in a dance on saturday night and then commune at the lords supper on the following Sabbath a morning or Pray for the Blessing of god in it. 6. The consciences Oft weaker Brethren for whom Christ died Are always wounded when any of the members of the Church participate in the dance. If for no other reason we should refrain for their Sake saying As Paul did a a it is Good to neither eat flesh nor drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother Stu Bleth or is offended or made weak a a rom. Xiv. A Western . Havelock a Fraye tent. Many people excuse themselves from gods service a for want of a time. The a apprentice does the school boy in the hurry of term time does the Man at his workshop the Mother with her Large family around her. General Havelock that distinguished general in India whose Wisdom and bravery did so much to pub a Stop to the cruel and bloody Mutiny Oft the sepoy never made this excuse to get rid of the service of his heavenly father. He had time among All the hurry and worry of Camp life to make the business of religion he first business. He found time. He did not believe that god Ever put men in posts where they could not serve him. He was a Man of prayer and he found time to Pray not Only to Pray by himself but with his men. Among his Camp baggage was a praying tent the largest one he had and this he used to pitch at the stations and hold prayer meetings in it and read the precious word of god to his soldiers. He Well knew if there was a class of men in the world that needed the comforts and help of the lord Jesus Christ it was soldiers. And Many a poor Soldier found How Superior was a heavenly service Over anything the Queen of England could offer. In the hurried and awful marches which Gen. Havelock and his regiments were forced to make in the late War he arose two hours before his men in order to have time to Pray. If they were to March at six of clock in the morning he was up at tour. If the Camp was to break up at four he was up at two. He believed there was time for the business of religion. And the papers Tell us there were no soldiers so a rempt and faithful in duty so reliable in those dreadful times As Gen. Havelock and his praying regiments. Reconciliation. Robert Hall and Charles Simeon Are Well known among the lights of the evangelical interest in England in the Days when it Cost something to be faithful to spiritual truth. These two servants of Christ the former a Baptist and the latter of the established Church both living at Cambridge formed a warm Friendship for each other. In time however a breach was made which grew so great that they refused even to speak to each other. A reconciliation was at length effected by the Rev. John Owen Secretary of the British and foreign Bible society whose memory is still fragrant in the English churches. The Means used was the following plan adopted after several others had been tried in vain. He wrote and left at the House of each these lines a a How rare that task a prosperous Issue finds which seeks to reconcile discordant minds How Mady scruples Rise at passions touch this yields too Little and that asks too much each wishes each with others eyes to see and Many sinners can to make two agree what mediation then the Saviour showed who singly reconciled us All to god a it is said that upon receiving the lines each minister left his residence to seek the other and that they met in the Street where a perfect reconciliation took to die Happy. Glorious words these to which i heard a dying woman respond not Long ago with a sudden burst of Praise a a is he not a precious Saviour so great and Good and willing to save All us poor sinners a she was lying on a hard bed in Tho dreary infirmary Ward of a work House and the Power of Faith and love to create a happiness Independent of circumstances came out with almost startling Force in her answer to the a inquiry a a you know him then and love him a _ a a yes i do know him and love him his presence makes a heaven in this a a a if you1 heaped up my bed with Gold and Silver a she added a a if you could give me the Queens Quot Carriage and horses and her Palace and her Garden and All her Beautiful Flowers and health and strength to enjoy it All i would not take them if they would hinder me from going to my Saviour. They talk1 of the pains of dying what will they be to me ? they wifi but hurry me to heaven acid to of eng Lish hearts ctn English hands. The t Ivok of truly did Theodore Sedgwick say that it is the. Man of Rob at and of elastic Nenis of comprehensive digestion who does the great work of it is Soott with his Manly form. It. Is Brougham with his superhuman Powers of physical endurance. It is Franklin at the age of seventy camping out on his Way to arouse the Caus Das As our hardiest boys of Twenty now Camp out in the Adirondack or on too Miami pm. It is. Emf Ossington we the his j he who. Mkt san a Dol eff slip Iolite a makes a Martyr of Bis sife Garft

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