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Pittsburgh Presbyterian Banner (Newspaper) - September 28, 1861, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaJ i i Quot us Kinky a. Allison8. Little. L wid my Kinney amp co. Editors and proprietors. Terms in Advance. A Nulk subscriptions,.,.$1.50 to omits 1.25 is i Takh of tub cilia a a. it in two , to will Semi by Moll so Quaty number i tor on Dollar thirty Kree numbers. F i toys Sodt Long Urc Wenty Habisc Rubbra and upwards will in Tubby Enki told to <1 paper without charge. View us should to prompt it Little be Tore the year expires tend payment by Saba lauds,.or by mail ire tall letters to Datil Imp Kimi amp com Pittsburgh a. For tha presbyterian Banner Whitt Lack 1 my a i few Xix 88. Lit is evident that the person who asked to question Felt that on his part there ? nothing lacking and that in his own it he could Deurand and receive eternal it is Alsa it evident f room. The eagerness la which he pressed the question that Lilb he Fon that he had done All there in i heart a want which he could not be hut which disturbed his peace and be restless. His soul. His spiritual co Loo is similar to one who Falls asleep Pilot. Suffering from pain. How restless disturbed the sleep How. Undefined Ibeling How dim the Conception of it is that annoys. V just so this per in the spiritual blindness that was upon was disturbed by that craving of. The kit which the spirit of a god alone Lough Christ can fill it pricked i Pon Noe reached his Low his and yet he knew not what was wanting. Joe in the tone of one assured is right yet devoid of the heart ils when it really possesses that which its iture demands he asks a a what Lack i it a when the fever is High and thirst a assumes the body if perchance sleep its us scarce Are we locked in its Sweet Brace until thirst causes Sweet visions of ter to Rise before us. We see it using from the Fountain or rising drip no from the Well. We see it fill the ass a Ven feel it Cool and refreshing to e touch but when we attempt to drink it Les our efforts. Just so those 0, without Christ attempt to satisfy the ritual wants of their hearts. It will not stayed. In their feverish dreams they a see the gushing Fountain and floods of Fater flowing by their feet they May Loop and in imagination drink but their first is no More quenched than his who. List burning with fever dreams that he quaffing the Sweet Cool water. After Ion have done All they can after they have served the Law. From their youth up they ill Lack one thing. To the eager anxious Pitry a what Lack i yet a Christ of aptly answers a a one thing thou Lack t. Go sell that thou Hast give the poor and thou Shalt have a ensure in heaven and come follow he does not say that his moral life id deeds of Charity Are of no use. On e contrary he tells him that for ill Thise Lere is Laid up in heaven a Reward but he Oes Tell him i that with All he has Lone and Lough in addition he should a part with All is goods to the poor he would still Lack be thing to obtain eternal life. He would of lose his. Obedience or exercise his a Evolene in vain. They would be noticed and recorded in heaven and for them he Ould receive a suitable Reward but that Iward would not be eternal life. This is be Rock upon which the multitude make lip wreck. They propose to secure eternal tie by obedience to the moral Law and works a Charity. God has not promised life in turn for these. To loves All efforts to keep his Law. He is pleased with the Eart open to the cry of the needy and his Vor will be upon All such but he has not promised neither will he give eternal life 1 such conditions. To All such he says thou blackest one thing yet come and allow this is the of ill condition Pon which god secures to men eternal be. It is Only when we follow Christ that s spirit can dwell in the heart heal it of is disease of sin and make it glad in the a session of spiritual health. This is hat All our endeavours to live Morales cannot do. There is m the soul the ring fever of sin which nothing will each but the blood of Christ. There the deep wounds of sin. Which nothing in heal but the spirit of Christ. A a. B. . For the presbyterian Banner. Presbytery of fees map. The e following paper on the state of the pantry was unanimously passed by the presbytery of Des Moines at its lat meet leg at Winter sett. A a whereas the fundamental principles tour constitutional equitable and file Jed by popular government have been la Large Section of our common country pored and set aside and As a consequence i Are now reaping the legitimate fruits in Bellion treason and. Civil War. And berets we regard this. Wide spread rebel in not merely As revolutionising the Best in of government but As involving the a traction of both civil and Reggio u lib a. And whereas All that has rendered Happy prosperous As a people All that distinguished us As a nation among the Lions of the Earth is rightfully t4 be at muted to the influence of our holy Reli to the special interposition of the of nations and whereas any a al infliction whatever be its form is i native of the divine displeasure for i curse Causeless shall not there i resolved that Iwry pm a vol. X., no. 2. Pittsburgh saturdays sept Ember 28, 1861. Whole no. 470 for the presbyterian Banner the action of Beaver presbytery on Parson the Church by every consideration of self preservation Progress and Success ought to take the subject of parsonage houses to her heart. Tie presbyterian Church has always held the Standard of ministerial qualification High. She looks for her most talented and educated As Well As pious sons to preach the gospel. In this she acts wisely. But the poor provision. Made for their support a Many instances after they Euter upon the sacred work is a great loss of strength. Whatever tends to promote the efficiency of the ministry leaving out of View the idea of Comfort should receive the serious attention of every established congregation. And among the things having an important bearing in this direction is the erection of parsonage or houses for the accommodation of the pastors. In some localities the fathers attended to this matter by securing a farm upon which a dwelling was erected for the. Ministers family and which was secured in perpetuity to the congregation for this purpose. No such provision however is to be found within our Bounds result is that great inconvenience often arises to a newly settled pastor. No suitable House can be had to rent and hence he must go into a Bouse where his family is but poorly accommodated and his opportunities for. Study very materially interfered with. Now if in such , lie. Congregation had a Avitable parsonage the minister would at once be at borne and there he could stay without the vexation and trouble of frequent moving. The want of such provision is a serious loss both to the pastor people. Otherwise the newly Settle 1 minister must Purchase land and build or Purchase property already requires an immediate outlaw of of capital which few very few can command and frequently entails upon the Pas tor a. Debt that oppresses his spirit and cripples his usefulness for years. It seems to us. Therefore that no time should be lost but that All our cd grebes should initiate me ures. For the attainment of this Mon it important object. In View therefore of the foregoing considerations resolved that parsonage in the present state of our churches have become a necessity. Resolved that it be recommended to All on churches to take measures for the erection of parsonage As soon As possible. In the present civil we Are to recognize the just judg to of heaven for our National sins we Are called upon As a Church and As Jitian citizens to Humble , in the mighty hand of god to Call to his distinguishing us As a u and to seek by prayer and Supply a confession of our sins and tins of our people sins of our the interposition of , his anger May be turned away from us Lour National integrity May be preserved constitutional Law and Liberty main c solved that we feel it to be a. High it duty to support by All proper Means ederal government As the on a repro Iive of our nationality and of our is constitutional and civil authority is end we invoke the divine protect and guidance for our chief magistrate is counsel ors. For our senators and actors for the chief of our armies his to officers and soldiers. Resolved that we cordially approve of Tion of the last general laser ably in Nee to the state of the Chantry and it conduct of our commissioners in Ning that action believing it to been urgently called for As shown facts As already referred to and Ore we most cordially and affection re the members of All our churches shout our Bounds to carry out the pea inculcated in that action As a i duty to god to the Church and to Iole country. Solved that this presbytery regards sincere pleasure the act of Congress amending act of the pre ii i appointing Aday of humiliation and a a and supplication to almighty god in if the deplorable civil War in which involved. And it is earnestly recon to All on churches to observe the e last thursday of september by late religious m. Bathelder stated clerk., hear in it his voice saying unto us a a be be also ready.�?�. It resolved that in brother Ellis we beheld a Bright intellect a warm heart and an Earnest Christian Devotion. Resolved that As a class we have lost a an Earnest and diligent student and an a Bright Christian character. Resolved that we tender our Christian sympathy to the bereaved friends counselling them not to mourn As those without Hope a but to remember that with the Chris Tian to be absent from the body is to be Jestic in their solemn and Majestic Gran present with the. a a a Martin a Todd Yvo Ightman i Geo. J. Cress Mast a committee. Ary Are Apt to mis vocation in looking out of Lions to exercise great end rare Vird by stepping Over the Ordinary Ich lie directly in the Road before Hen we read we fancy we could be and when we come to act we year a provoking for the presbyterian Banner. An unsound Floc Feine. I in the published resolutions of a presbytery see Banner sept. 14�?we find this statement a a any established government becomes by the fact of its existence a an ordinance of god a and its executive officers a gods a the italics Are mine. A this doctrine is hot sound. The a Tere fact of its existence does not make or prove a government to be the ordinance of god. It is its moral character As founded in principles of Justice and organized and administered for the Good of men that As gods ordinance of civil gov Ein Meiji. See Rem. Xiii. 1. Pet. Ii. Confession of Faith xxx Xxiii and Xxxi the government of the United states is the ordinance of god not because it exists but Beck use of its a Tom character and we Pray very Day that it May prove itself a a not a terror to Good works but to. The evil a and show that the civil ruler is a a the minister of god a revenger to execute Wrath upon him that doth evil a and that he a a Heareth not the sword in but were a band of pirates to seize a territory. And establish a government to plunder other people and murder or enslave them to boil established government would not become by the fact of its existence. A a an ordinance of god a and its executive officers ministers a their government would be an ordinance of the Devil and its officers the ministers of the Devil doing his bad work. We must distinguish. So Algernon Sydney wrote a the tha pretends to the veneration and obedience due to the ministers of god must by his actions Manit est that be is so. And though . Unwilling to Advance a proposition that May sound harshly to tender ears inclined Tofee Lieve that the same Rule which obliges us to yield obedience to the Good magistrate who is the minister of god and assures us that in obeying him we obey god does equally oblige us not to obey those who make themselves the ministers of the Devil lest in obeying them we obey the Devil whose works they do. The apostle commanding our obedience to the minister of god for our Good commands to not to be obedient to the minister of the Devil to our. . We cannot serve two discourses on government vol. I. This is the teaching of fee Bible and of common sense the government of the Southern confederacy based avowedly on slavery As its foundation and chief Corner Stone conspiring fee overthrow of the Best government in the world destruction of Liberty and living by perjury treason rebellion robbery and murder exists that is a. Fact but it is an ordinance of. . And if it should be established for five Hundred years and succeed and killing even More a Yteo sively than it has yet Bee table to. It would not become a a by the fact he a its existence. A an ordinance of cd and its executive officers a gods ministers Quot christiin8 Are commanded to be subject to civil authority. Its May be heir duty to obey tillers that Are bad men. A infidelity or difference in religion doth not make void the i a magistrate a a just and Legal author Ity nor it the the people from their due obedience to him a conf. Of Faith the ruler May be different , May be a i a infidel or a wicked Man but that does Liot make void his just and Legal authority nor free the people from due . Yery True. But when any government becomes a usurping cruel despotic tyranny depriving its subjects of their rights. Or compelling them upon wrong Doire subverting the very ends of government it ceases to be Odds moral ordinance and a loses its claim to. Conscientious obedience. The slav Iii doctrine of passive obedience to civil Poer just because it happens in the permissive Providence of god to exist is wide Sprai and permeates More or less distinctly it thoroughly the minds of Many people. It is Deither rational nor Christian , nor american and should by rooted out of the Earth. A presbyterian. Eor the presbyterian Banner. Dec ase of d. D. Ellis at a meeting of the Middle class in the Allegheny theological Seminary september kith 186., the following testimonial to the Worth of or. D. H. Ellis late a member was adopted x whereas god in Bis inscrutable provi Denee has Sel fit to remove our beloved brother d. A Ellis from his earthly la Bors to his Fig re Yard therefore. It re of Ted Fabat in this affliction we Reeo Dize god Sright to claim his own and. Selected nearer Iho Noi a use attn is my fatherland heavens my Home Over the Hill the Sun is setting eve is drawing on slowly droops the gentle Twilight. For another Day is gone gone for is Over soon the Darker shades will come. Still to is Sweet to know at even ,. We Are one Home. ,,�?� Mariner As he glides the Waters Over while the Light is softly dying on Bis Distant native Shore. Thus the Christian on life a Ocean As his Light boat out s the foam in the evening cries with rapture a .one Home.�?�. A worn and weary Oft the Pilgrim hails of the Sun for his one and his journey nearly done. Thus we feel when Over life a desert heart and Sandal sore we roam As the Twilight gathers of or us a we Are. One Home. Nearer Home Tes one to our fathers Horise on High to the Green Fields fountains of the the sky for the heavens grow brighter Over us lamps hang in the dome and on tents Are pitched still we a re one Home. Por the presbyterian Banner. Acknowledgement. Messes. Editors a permit me through your paper to acknowledge the receipt of a valuable Box of clothing from the ladies swing society of Pisgah presbyterian Church of Jefferson county Penn a., and others,.for the use of , and family. For this they have our most sincere thanks. Such acts of kindness Are worthy of the highest commendation. For they afford much needed Aid and Comfort to those who Are. Labouring to build up the redeemer a kingdom in Plesti tute places. Surely it is a Day of Sunshine in the missionary a Home when a Box is opened unfolding its much needed gifts accompanied by the names of Well remembered friends. May the kind donors Ever experience the truth of the a declaration of the redeemer that it is More blessed to give than to receive and at last hear the Saviour say inasmuch Asye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren a a have done it unto me. D. L. Mccomb. Algona Kossuth co., Lowa july 30, �?T61. European correspondence. To Topsy venom lesbos. To p.b18�?nladl Sci lbs and in kiss ions Paris in she. Morning demolition Aid re silk they designs a. Tilsit Tothy bub Tob the by a memorial Chapelle the re bed Blionas outwitted Popert priests French protest Paris August 28, 1861. From parts in route to Geneva i write you. Six years ago your v a a correspondent a was Here at the evangelical Alliance now the same body invite is others As Well As myself to meet with christians of All nations within sight of the Alps and their eternal snows and in one of the Strong holds whence protestantism sent Forth in the 16th Century Light and Liberty Over Europe. I left London by the a tidal train a from the London Bridge station on monday morning last. We swept rapidly through Golden Fields of Grain bowing to the sickle or already cleared and past hop plantations whose a a bind a this year from recent dry weather and warm Sunshine is better far than was anticipated. We reach Folkestone Harbor soon after Noonday. On those Breezy Chalk Cliffs stretching All the Way from Dover to Sandgate and including Folkestone Heights one would wish for a while to linger for what air is More pure or healthy ? this is the place where the Rev., William Arthurs so Long an invalid says he always a a feels better than any where else save in the my advice to american clergymen who have got the professional sore Throat is not to repair to the desert of Sinai but if they Are not intent As Well they May in visiting in july the Mineral Waters of Soden mid emms whose Virtues i myself have proved simply to come to Folkestone in Kent overlooking the Channel that divides France and England and with the glorious Bank ground of Beautiful Hills and Fertile waving Fields. They must Absiire books and study keep silent for a couple of months meditate As they can on the margin of the sounding sea ascend shakes Pedres Cliff and Caesars Camp that Hill where tradition says he consent rate a his newly landed forces live almost entirely in the open air eat heartily so As to satisfy the keen appetite1 sure to come to them and then judge How health growing and bracing is the place. I shall not detail the incidents of the Brief passage of the restless Channel nor contrast with the malade Numerof some the excellent a sea logs of others including that excellent and Rev. Or. Birks the son in Law of the lamented Bickersteth and one of the honorary secretaries of the evangelical Alliance or better still his genial Converse with or. Denham of Londonderry and other passengers. Nor shall i minutely Trace the Progress of the train As it passes from Boulogne Paris Ward through the Flat and marshy Plains of nor Manby. A As we move rapidly along there is pointed out the Harbor where the Duke of Normanby afterwards William the conqueror is said to have gathered his Fleet and troops for that successful Idva Siori of Saxon England which was so suggestively brought to mind last week by the inauguration of a commemoration pillar. Recently erected by Imperial command on the seashore. A neither May l stay for in a tnaj.1 and fast train at Clermont once a French Streng hold which Edward Iii. Besieged and took nor do More than notice in passing the Beautiful Groves and chateaus on the sides of Beautiful Chantilly whither the great Gondi retired in do inst from the frowning presence of an ungrateful King. Night in Paris is charming. The Bright churches palaces and tie Noble facades of new streets and thoroughly a a palladian architectures. The cafes Are All gaily lighted up Motley company seated outside on those Straw bottomed chairs Are Busy in discussing ices and other refreshments and All the while chattering with a solubility most marvellous. The column in the place yen dome the Tuil series Palace the louvre Cleopatra a Needle the in to at. Noble. Place de la concorde All come out at night More a Deur than beneath the Garish Eye of Day. And then is not the champs do Elysess with that Sportive band of youngsters who seated on Little wooden horses Chase one another As the merry go round makes its rapid revolutions and with the voices of that band of singers from yonder canopied gallery who accompanied by a band of music Ever and anon elicit the plaudits of that Brilliant crowd who scattered All Over the gardens of one of the hotels drink their cafe a last or their my. Ordi Naire ? such night scenes in Paris in this Sweet autumn season do strike a stranger just come from a less genial clime. In the Balmy air itself he feels elastic and refreshed a All is Noyel and tej Yetoy he enjoys everything. A a r. Early morning too a Paris has. Its charms. Wordsworth the poet o,.ce wrote Down in his pocket Book a Noble sonnet when standing on London Bridge in the Early summer Ere the noise of Rushing Commerce could assault his sensitive pm and before dust and smoke bad thrown. Their murky veil Over the Metropolis. But Early As Well As All Day Long Paris has a purer sky than London. Even the old streets and buildings in this dry and Serene atmosphere still preserve in a Large measure their native whiteness. But see How Surpas singly Bright and fair is that Long facade on either Side of the newly feed if not newly built Rue Saint Honor As also louvre begun Ages ago continued afterwards and then left Long incomplete but completed within the period of 1852�?1857, by ill. A in Point of fact it is almost a , even Bince last i visited it the municipal Ity under impel a inspiration have been pulling Down. And bldg up incessantly and with marvellous rapidity and results. A one effect lodgements Are dear,.,and House rent in the Best situations something fabulous a the poor working class being sufferers. New boulevards Salute the stranger and invite him to Long walks in every direction. Under for , near the Madeleine is the Boulevard a do Mal sherbet stretching northward toward Montmartre As yet not. Half finished but destined to be qualis a Ince tor a As com Pleto and built. This is the Boulevard which1 and in every new Boulevard he has a strategic purpose was recently inaugurated by a speech fro the emperor but How pleasant it is when a a up Diu the morning Early a you pass toward that Bridge Over the Seine on whose further Side and just behind the statue of Henry iv., you find los Bains pour Natation and the juvenile and. Somewhat alarmed pupils of that talkative swimming master who walks along the Edge of the Basin holding up the boy Elk be with Light cords passed beneath the arms to take p. Plunge and swim you Milf and to come Forth jubilant invigorated and Bra cd up for the Day and then As you come Back see How the Sho Blacks not juveniles like the Loridon brigades but mostly old men begin1 to polish the a a understandings a of the citizens or the strangers How then passes by an ambulance Wagon with sick soldiers for the military no Spital How then come next carts heavily Laden with Hay and Straw preceded and followed by cavalry How at the Gates of the,.various Barracks you see soldiers of the line with their closely fitting peaked Caps their Small yet wiry figures their red and flowing trousers tucked up mid leg Over the newly invented Buskin of Brown. ascends Over the Ancle and above the White gaiters How t e the zouave Hardy and bronzed Veteran bears himself jauntily with a Little Forest of medals on his breast How the splendidly. Equipped Imperial guard lodged near the Tuil series lofty in stature and provid in aspect have become the favorite mainstay of imperialism new j list As their fathers were up till they perished in the last charge led by my Lehaf Ney at Waterloo. See too How buying a Aryl Selling hag begun especially among tto Dames,., de Halle Fis Market and in the Public shambles where veritable and excellent beef Rich in fat sirloin but soon to be overdone and spoiled in the cooking present themselves where the Mutton so inferior yields to its rival and Superior veal which killed earlier than in England but not too Young. Furnish those Cut Telefus which for a Britain who to Vas his Southdown Mutton provides. A Welcome change and sub,. Next let us up party of thru Era breakfast at the boulevards Des a Talli Enes. The. Coffee the. Bread the butter the cutlets the Salle a a imprisoning eco less a the iced water the White Napkin the fair Tablecloth the Marble table the tout ensemble a excellent. Bit a passport is wanted France is now open to an englishman a card de Misite but in regions beyond the old pass sgt system though doomed feigns sjill., and. So we re air to the ambassadors House and after a Short delay Are a passport free of charge by a Haq Soine Young Man who though he May have in his veins11 the blood of All the howards a is far More polite than that Humber Fern Jack in. Office fee Porter who shoves you into the waiting room. Out of Paris Are we borne by a Voit Urier whose vehicle we hire by the hour. He is and intelligent fellow car. Superior to the London Cabman a politician to Boot. He is a Republican As most of his class Are Orle autism he likes next Best imperialism he loves not it is a a trop Deer a too Stern and repressive. A we drive to the famous Bois de Boulogne the property of the municipality of Paris and. Within the boundaries of the capital. We pass through the arc Detriomphe with All its memorial and martial sculpture and entablature we drive Over Beautiful roads to the Cascade along the Valley of Long champs past the racing stand and course and up to the Bridge of Saint Clouds whose old Palace. And its new Imperial chateau Are fun Levin View the Woods and houses of the neighbouring town All hot and glowing in the broiling Sun. A a returning homeward we repaired to the a a Chapelle a a erected in memory of the la invented Duke of Orleans the Brave Leader in algerian wars the eldest son of Louis Phillippe whose sudden and violent death by the funnies away of his horse with Feis Carriage his leaping out causing fracture of the Skull it is not too much to say changed not Only the dynasty of French Rule but the destiny of France itself. Sadly solemn and impressive is that memorial building a with its mosaic floor its. Two altars of is mosaic floor its Tysoal. White Marble mingled Fefe Juji Ife Sable nov. A a ered chairs above All that form of the though waning Moon throwing her silverdead%0 to Uchs ugly sculptured by on a com beams in prodigal fullness on columns Ali slice Sisters chisel a great Coulp torn a Hal was and is and last of All that great painting in the chamber behind the chief altar where the Royal father and Mother and weeping Sisters and Guizot and african generals a Well As marshal Soult All watch and wait in sorrow unutterable As fee. Prince All unconscious breaths his life away. Politically the greatest change effected of late in Paris is the construction of a magnificent Boulevard right through t e Quartier de Saint Alo Iines so Long the stronghold of the Paris red republicans. The emperor has Feus fairly unearthed and scattered them. No barricades a May now arise with fierce and half naked insurgents behind them. A Park or two of would sweep clean of the open Boulevard stretching away to the column of. Italy and to the old site of the infamous Bastile. Religion in Paris is what it has Ever been since Coligny Huguenots disappeared in the massacre of Saint Bartholome it. It is spectacular superstitious heartless and enter that magnificent grecian Structure of the. Madeline at 9 a. M., and you find one priest succeeding another in saying Niass. As i take a Hack seat i see sixteen women and four note Fer from fee main altar. The a priest is in. Splendid Robes with shaven. , and wife Feis Back to the people As to Weir intercessor a be Roofe wife god he bows end crores is hims la no vow is Beard bit he repeats the Magie formula hoc est Corpus Mem and Loas Pope innocent put it priests god a the Bell a rings the 1 devotees prostrate themselves the priest uplifts fee Host several times,.and. The Bell rings again and again. Six women Only were the communicants priest tripping Down the altar Steps puts aeon secreted wafer each particle of which says the Triden Tine Council contains a a a whole Christ a on the Tongue of each Reo pint. He has already a a received a keeping the cup for meet you every where in their Long Black Robes very like Are they to Black beetles fee one class the originals creeps on the ground fee other too although erect into houses a a leading captive ,,n,�?� and becoming their directors and masters. Frenchmen As a Rule Are sceptics they detest fee priests and if Ever there is another revolution woe be to these satraps of the papacy. Thiere arc orders of clergymen different from fee. A a regulars a Quot sue Feas the Christian a a Brothers of the oratory a who i see an noun be by placards a grand a a lottery for holy purposes inviting fee Faife Ful to get a Fortune if they can Blessing of the Church at fee. Same time by fee Small sum of one franc for a share a a thin k of that my Little dears a a a mean let protestants in America think what they deprive themselves of by rejecting Rome and her lotteries i Gamblin Tih a abundance there is in Paris a Roulette tables in splendid gambling houses for Rich Comers from All fee world billiards with betting a women playing together at cards inside fee cafe a men working men outside at nigh us while fee so Diers do Tho same almost All Day Long in the fir Racks and guardhouse. Protestantism in Paris bulks Small. Its a a temples Are scarcely visible and Are few and far Between nevertheless French and Paris protested Tim has got increased life. True Quot revival is really Here. A Adieu for the present. I close in haste i for fee Post. My. Next i Trust god willing will contain notes of the opening of fee Geneva conference. . A Paul a great Pes Tiou. There is a striking illustration of the True character of fee Christian in the question of Paul a a lord what Wilt thou have me to do a it was eminently characteristic of the a Man himself. He, great activity and Energy. He had shown Feis by his Zeal in behalf of his Faith and his Devotion to the service of god. Trained in fee strictest school of the ancient Faith with Clear and exalted intellectual convictions of truth he was led to see in the Eligic. Of element of Power Over fee minds and hearts of Man which threatened fee subversion of the system to had so ardently cherished. His soul was stirred with in Paf ept. And holy ardor in defense of his re Ligion and with a. Commission to go Forth and Root up if possible fee now doctrine and persecute All who adopted it be was a powerful opponent of fee Church of Christ he had received a new revelation on his Way to Damascus and when feat great clip be had been effected. In his Sunlan d. The violent struggle had been terminated by his submission to the Saviour he had Perse cuff Dalisee anti Vitiz a of his heart and mind were developed new Dir Eton and his first demand was. To know How he could consecrate his to Ivers and his labors service of Christ. He is our example and will remain a pattern to men in every age till the end of time. A Quot Paul believed in action he was not Content wife simple Faith Hope and experience of the Power of converting Grade his Faife was to be witnessed by his works. His Hope was to be exhibited by Nis a life testimony. His experience was to by enriched quickened and deepened by. Fee of the new Powers of divine Grace life is action. Dead Trees Bear no fruit. Stagnant streams water no ver a Dant Meadows. A a a pulse less hearts Send Quot no food Lerough living veins. Silent tongues kindle no Quot responsive harmonies. Dumb witnesses utter no soul stirring truths. So eau feeling feat fee constraining love of Christ was a motive Power which could arouse convert subdue conquer arid quicken dead souls to life and conscious that this Power had been Given to him went Forth to endure All things if he inight win souls to Christ. Every converted soul has this Power. It is the same in kind if not in degree. There is a Unity in this love of Christ. It comes from one common source it operates by fee same Means on souls involved in one common spiritual. Curse and it produces the same fruits. If All have not the same degree of ability to testify or to labor we All have it in some degree. Tjie True Lover of Christ will not Dishonour his master by 4 practical denial of its Possession if he be conscious of his duty. Were Paul living to Day we believe that he would not be aft idl Manin the Church. What a boundless Field of influence would lie open before him. With a Zeal and a boldness of utterance like feat which filled his discourse on Mars Hill How would his voice Quot he heard Tinong on modern idolatries�?T,.and our time serving conventional ism a and our Money getting and pointing away from Earth to the Cross How would he unfold the truths of life and immortality i his life would be a blazing epistle whose language would be in letters of living fire and whose Powers would be Felt throughout the world. A. A 1 but though dead his example and his written word he Calls us to Ibe. Up and at. The masters service. A a in that Wilt thou have Trie to do a. Should be the Earnest cry of every Follower of Christ. The world a is. Ripening to fee Harvest. Where reapers where Ore those who love the cause of Christ where Are fee men and women of self sacrifice who count All things but loss for Christ ? where Are the talents Energy of the Church that need now to be thrown into the Battle Field of opinion and Progress and striking the omnipotent blows of truth at the principalities and Powers shall work for the glorified d emancipation when All men shall be made free with fee truth As it is in Jesus. A the Sabbath school Sanctuary. In most communities but few Sabbath school scholars Are found attending on the stated preach ing of the gospel. Their parents Send them to the Sabbath school but Seldom take them with them to. Church. It seems to be taken for granted that when the children have attended fee exercises of the Sabbath school they have attended upon All that is necessary for them. Never however was a More fatal mistake committed. The stated preaching of the gospel is of divine appointment Means of Grace furnished directly in connexion with the services of the Sanctuary Are those especially established by the great head of the Church for fee Saiva tiring of sinners arid fee edification of saints. No others introduced by Iri Ere human authority How excellent Soever they May be can form an adequate substitute for them. The children need them As much As the adult. They As Well As their parents should regularly participate in them. It is important. That children attend the Sab base school but it is much More important that feel attend upon the stated preaching of fee gospel. If fee privileges of the former cannot be enjoyed except at the expense of the latter in that Case these privileges must be foregone it is better not to Send the children to the Sabbage school if the sending of them prevents them from attending upon the regular services of the Sanctuary a a rather would we see All Sabbath schools important As we regard them blotted put of existence than feat the children should thereby be deprived of their Birthright Privily Pesiri fee House of god. We do riot however see that the enjoyment of the privileges of fee one should necessarily interfere wife fee enjoyment of fee privileges of the other. The children can attend the Sabbage school Public ministrations of t. C gospel German ref. Messenger. A the Young Soldier dying a a bring me my Knapsack a said a Young Soldier who Lay sick in one of fee hospitals at Washington. A bring me my a. A a what do you want of your Knapsack a inquired fee head lady of the band of a i want my Knapsack a again said fee dying Young Knapsack was ,-Andas he took it his Eye gleamed with pleasure and his face was covered All Over with a smile As he brought out from it his hidden treasures. / a a ,�?� said he a a feat is a Bible from Ray Mother. And this Washington a Farewell address is fee gift of my father. And this a a his voice failed him. A the nurse looked Down to see what it was and there was the face of a Beautiful Maiden a now a the dying Young Soldier a i want you to put All these under my pillow.she did As she was requested poor Young Man Laid Down on them to die. Requesting feat they should be sent to his parents when he was gone. Calm and Joyful was he in dying. It going from night to endless Day from death to eternal glory. So the Young Soldier died tic great object. The great object of sunday school teaching was fee conversion of the Young mind and heart to the knowledge and service of Jesus Christ. The time was when a differ ent object was contemplated namely simple instruction in Reading and writing and loading fee memory with facts. What object however could be so Noble and Sublime As that in which the humblest Young Man or woman could Lecome a to pastor and fellow worker with Christian ministers in leading souls to Christ what so Noble As to take1 Young ragged children from some of the purlie us of this great town unprotected by human care unloved by parental hearts and to bring them to the feet of Christ which was the greatest Man sir Henry Havelock going to fee Relief of Lucknow or sir Henry Fla Elook fee simple Lay Baptist preacher ? that was a Point of casuistry which some persons bight be at a loss to determine but to his a archers mind it was Clear und obvious feat Henry a Avely Elk the glorious a Warrior was a greater Mari when preaching the gospel or singing a Tyirin wife a few of his soldiers and instructing some of their children in the path of eternal truth than when leading on the marshalled legions of his country to fee Relief of that great Centre of vice and iniquity Rescue of those who were struggling under oppression. Quot a ,. They were not to go to the sunday school to teach Mere science or politics or philosophy in fee common sense of the term but to prese i t the simple Story of the living fee dying Aud the risen re Deeamer. If feat course was adopted to a greater extent by teachers and by Christian parents what a genial,.sunny glow would be cast Over our homesteads what a Sweet and blessed inf Uerice would be spread among the congregation when the moravian missionary of Herrn Huth tried., to it teach fee arts of gardening and car entering he made but Little Progress but when he read aloud that charming part of the gospel the Fere last chapters of John Karnack said a a of read it again that is what we the chapters were read again and again until there rolled a pin that Savage Niarie a Cheeks tears of contrition and melt Irig pathos. Lete teachers a Ever bring out feat simple Story because feel Felt if and understood it and let then in All things have a Clear and definite idea of what Uliey meant to teach before they attempted to instruct Freir. Pupils for no one Souid preach of teach distinctly unless he knew what he aimed a or Archer a before the a London Sabbath school Union. Liat do. A Cotopaxi in 1738, threw its fiery rockets 3,000 meet above its Crater while in 1744 the blazing mass struggling for an outlet roared so that its awful voice was heard a a distance of More than 600 Miles. In 1797 the Crater of Tung Fragua one of fee peaks of the Andes Flung out torrents of mud which dammed up Rivers opened new lakes and in valleys Ofa thousand feet wide made deposits of six Hundred feet deep the Stream in Vesuvius which in 1737 passed through Torre Del Greco contained 33,600,000 cubic feet of solid Matt ter and in 1794,-when ,0�?T was destroyed a second time fee mass of lava amounted to 45,000,000 cubic feet. In 1679 Etna poured Forth a flood which covered eighty Lour Square Miles of surface Rye to it my. A to trustee Rio a by or / publication office Gazette buildings 84 ii he st., pit Burgh a. K Philadelphia Sousha West of 7lh 1hd Chestnut advertisements. Terms in Advance. A Skaara 8 Hafla of Lens ail. Insertion 60 cents each Bab sequent no Cert Iii 40 Cental owl line beyond eight 5 c 1�. A Square per Quarter $4,00 a a Ohline on 83 Conte j a reduction Modosto advert visors by Tho a off. Business notices of ten Luca ottes amp Baacl and a Ltd of Natl duet 10 cents. A a Daio my Kotey amp go. Proprietor a and publishers. Which measured 100,000,000 cubic feet. On this occasion fee scoria formed fee Monte Rossi near Nicolosi a Cone two Miles in circumference and 4,000 feet High. The Stream thrown out by Etna in 1810 a was in motion at the rate of a Yard per Day for nine months after the eruption and it is on record that the lava of the same Mountain after a terrible eruption was not thoroughly consolidated ten years after the event. Id the eruption of v a Suvit a a. D. 70, the Seorine and ashes vomited Forth far exceeded the entire bulk of the Mountain while in 1660 Etna disgorged More than Twenty times its own mass. Vesuvius has thrown its ashes As far As constantinople Syria and Egypt it hurled stones eight pounds in Pompeii a distance of six Miles while similar masses were tossed 2,000 feet above its Summit. Cotopaxi has projected a Block of 109 cubic Yards in volume a distance of nine Miles and Sumbawa in 1815, during the most terrific eruption on record sent its ashes As far As Java a distance of 300.Miles Surfaro and but of a population of twelve thousand soils Only Twenty a science. A a v a select Reading. Quot a Hir it Lka of forsake a Friend. When enemies gather around when sickness Falls on the heart when Tho world is dark and cheerless is the time to try True Friendship. They who turn from the scene of distress betray their hypocrisy and prove feat interest. Only moves them. If you have a Friend who loves you who has studied your interest arid happiness be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let him feel that his former kindness is appreciated and that his love was not thrown away. Real Fidelity May be rare but it exists in the heart. They Only deny its Worth and Power who never loved a Friend or Laboured to make a Friend Happy. A coming Paradise Paradise lost is awaiting you and stands before you with unfolded Gates and time hasten Etli past and eternity pre Pareth itself to Roll on forever. And the body Loseth its strength for labor and its relish for sensual things and both haste to an end and rest cometh and refreshment in the presence of god and every Blessing of our first parents with every sup added Blessing which arises from the sense of dangers past from the glorious knowledge of redeeming love and from the certainty of salvation and deliverance and eternal . Little fellow eight years old who a As without a relative in the whole world was asked by a lady if he did not have fears As to whether he would get along in life. The child looked up with a perplexed and inquiring Eye As if Uncertain of her meaning and troubled with a new doubt. A a Why a said he a a do not you think god will take care of a Feller if he puts Liis Trust in him and does the Best he can a Beautiful idea a in the mountains of Tyrol it is the custom of the women and children to Home out when it is bed time and sing their National songs unil they hear their husbands fathers and Brothers answer them from fee Hills on their return Home. On to e shores of the Adriatic such a custom prevails. There the wives of the Fisherman come about Sunset and sing a Melody. After singing fee first a stanza they listen awhile for an answering Melody from off the water and continue to sing and listen till the Well known voice comes borne on fee Waters telling that fee loved Oue is almost Home. How Sweet to the weary Fisherman As the shadows gather around him must be fee songs of the loved ones at Home that sing to foyer him and How they must strengthen and tighten the links that bind together those Humble dwellers by the sea a How to have Friend once asked prof. Franke How die maintained so constant a peace of Rijina. A by stirring up my mind a bundred times a Day a replied Franke. A a wherever whatever i do i say blessed. Jesus have i a share in thy redemption ? Are my sins forgiven ? am i guided by thy spirit ? a amp new me strengthen by this constant Intercourse with Jesus i enjoy serenity of in ind and a settled peace of value of a summer Good Slimmer storm is a rain of riches if Gold and Silver rattled Down from the Clouds they would not enrich the land so much As soft Long Rains. Every drop is Silver going to the mint. The roots Are machinery and catching the willing drops they assay them refine them Roll them stamp them and turn them out coined berries apples grains and grasses. All fee mountains of California Are not so Rich As Are the soft mines of heaven. A caustic . South and Sherlock were disputing on some religious subject when few latter accused the other of using wit in fee controversy. A a Well a said South a a suppose it had pleased god to give you wit what would you have done a illustrating practice of illustrating nothing is too common in our. Sunday schools to be passed Over. Many teachers seek to Purchase the for Bearance not to say fee interest of their scholars during fee Ordinary exercises of the class. A by promising to Tell or read a Sto y to them if the Sermon is quietly listened to that is the children shall each have a sugar Plum if they arc Good and if they will take their physic afterwards without any demur the r to t mischievous practice on the other hand by taking up the attention of fee class by i relating tales and Good merely to amuse i and keep them quiet i Iso an abuse let our illustrations be aids to doctrinal truth never Sun tit Ute f r it let them be Short simple and pointed carefully distributed Trou input the lesson. Hindoo interpretation of Grace at Are said to have thought that fee English had no religion it All arid fee following Story current in India confirms the statement. Some missionaries recently arrived at Bombay were asked to Dine with a party of europeans. Before taking Fefer seats they stood reverently at the table to observe a custom which the others had Long neglected. When the missionaries clasped their hands bowed their Heads Aud said Grace the native servants arrested by this strange proceeding Are said to have whispered to one another a a Why they have a religion after All. See feel worship Tho knives and Forks a a fear not from the earliest a Days to inure your principles against fee perils of ridicule. You can no More exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter than you can enjoy your life if you Are in the Crin Stant terror of death. A a childhood childhood is like a Mirror Matching and reflecting images. Chufo impious or1 profane thought uttered by a a parents lips May operate upon Feo Young Quot heart like a Cauzy by Spray of water thrown steel staining it1 with rust which no after souring can of Fitce. Quot

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