foreigners, and by every proper means seek persevering and well directed efforts for erectto imbue them, both old and young, with the ing churches and gathering Sabbath schools spirit of Christ. The two great instruments and congregations. From the United States by which this can be done, are public schools Barracks below to Carrollton above, and on and domestic missions. These are the two both sides of the river, and from the river great agencies entrusted to American philan- bank to the lake shore, we have a missionary thropists and Christians, by which to regener- field, containing, it is believed, at least 150,000 ate so much of the Old World, as God, in His souls. Seven years ago there was but one Providence, may cast upon the bosom of the Presbyterian congregation in this city. Now, New. Of all secular agencies, by which to in the city and in Lafayette, by the blessing of do good to foreigners, there is nothing to com- God, there are seven. Six of these worship pare to our Free Public School System. And in English and one in French. But what are if there was not a single native-born child these among so great a multitude? At this benefited by our public schools, they should moment there is a pressing necessity for misbe fostered and upheld through every obsta- sionaries and means to support them in this cle, for the sake of the child of the stranger city.. From many districts around us and within our gates, and for the sake of the or- from many parts of the State, the Macedophan committed to the State by its Almighty nian cry is made to us every day, come over Father. I do not mean that public schools and help us. should be for such only by no means; they Lift up your eyes and look at the thousands are, and should be, open to all, rich and poor, of people of color in this city, who have no native and foreign. But I mean that they are pastor to care for their souls, Look at the of the very first importance in view of immi- 30,000 Germans among us without a single grants to this country. It is there they begin regularly organized Presbyterian churchto taste the sweets of liberty; it is there they and look at the hundreds of American famibegin to learn something of our blessed insti- lies, or families that speak the English lantutions, and to know how to enjoy them. guage, who do not attend any place of ProNext to public schools is the Printing Press: testant worship. Think of the vast multitude but above all, and that which is of infinite of immortal beings that crowd through our importance to their welfare in this and the streets every season. And remember that world to come, is the Gospel of Christ, as these are our countrymen - that many of preached and left to us by our adorable Re- them are not pious-that they are living in deemer and his holy Apostles. Among the sinful but hopeless destitution-many of mighty agencies which it hath pleased God to them almost indifferent on the subject—many ordain for the conversion of the world, the of them filled with gross and fatal delusions – preaching of the Gospel is the chief. The liable every moment to sickness and death cause of domestic missions, therefore, is the a dark and gloomy grave awaiting them, and first and greatest cause of our age and coun- beyond the grave an undone, awful eternity try; and just in the proportion that our popu- coming to meet them. lation increases, and as the agitations of the Old World cause its inhabitants to seek a home in the New, in the same degree are our obligations increased to support schools, colporteurs, missionaries and pastors, throughout the length and the breadth of our country. Christ. The importance of religion, the superiority of christianity to every other system of reliligious worship, and the sufficiency of the means which we possess for carrying into execution some more direct and extensive plans for the preaching of the Gospel, are Not in studies above their years, or in irksubjects that none of you call in question. some tasks should children be employed. We live in a missionary age, and in the midst The joyous freshness of their young natures of a vast missionary field. It is obvious to should be preserved, while they learn the duthe mere stranger that this city and its neigh- ties that fit them for this life and the next. borhood present a wide field for steadfast, Wipe away their tears. Remember how hurt Can anything more be wanting to awaken your pity and call forth all your sympathies ? They are our fellow-men. They are living in sin, and the only hope of saving them from hell, is to bring them, before they die, to For the Casket. MORAL TRAINING. ful are the heavy rains to the tender blossom style-a subtle disputant, and a preacher just opening on the day. Cherish their smiles; of unusual attractiveness. The strength and let them learn to draw happiness from all sur- discipline of his intellect, and the position he rounding objects-since there may be some won thereby, gave promise of extended good mixture of happiness in everything but sin. or evil. The result was wholly evil. The It was once said of a beautiful woman, that mystery of iniquity, which has so corrupted from her childhood she had ever spoke sinil- the English Church, was beginning to work ing, as if the heart poured joy on her lips at Oxford about the time that he came to be a and they turned it into beauty. May I be man of note. He caught the infection, and forgiven for so repeatedly pressing on mothers labored to spread it. Starting with the adopto wear the lineaments of cheerfulness. "To tion of the doctrine of Baptismal Regenerabe good and disagreeable, is high treason tion, as a germ or seminal principle, he went against the royalty of virtue," said a correct on to the complete "development" of a sysmoralist. How much is it to be deplored, tem of doctrines founded mainly on Tradiwhen piety, the only fountain of true happi- tion, and a system of worship which consisted ness, fails of making that joy visible to every of obsolete rites revived, and semi-papistical If happiness is melody of soul, the forms introduced. Always earnest in his beconcord of our feelings with the circumstan- lief, he was zealous in spreading the princices of our lot, the harmony of the whole be- ples of the new party, and was by far the ing with the will of our Creator, how desira- most able and vigorous writer of their famous ble that this melody should produce the re"Tracts. " But there was left too much o sponse of sweet tones, and a smiling counten- Protestantism in ths articles of the Church of ance, that even slight observers may be won England, and too much of spirituality in its by the charm of its external symbols. worship, for one so smitten with the love of Washington College, East Tenn. Ritualism, and he soon found his own place in the Church of Rome. Now he is well known as "Father Newman," Priest of the Church of Rome, and a diligent and effective controversialist in her behalf. The fine gold of his original character has become very dim. eye. From the New York Observer. *** THE TWO BROTHERS. — THE PAPIST 66 In one of those populous and fertile dis- The younger brother, Francis William tricts into which Old England is divided, there Newman, seems to have started with sentidwelt during the first years of the present ments more thoroughly evangelical than those century a family, whose name little known of his famous relative. This difference was then, has been made widely famous by subse- magnified, as the divergence of the elder quent events. In that family the visitor brother from the faith of the English Church would have found two bright and promising became more manifest. It interrupted muboys, the objects of much love and solicitude, tual sympathy, and at last induced an open and the source of many hopes. There were rupture. Learning," says the younger several years difference in the ages of the brother, speaking of the elder, "that I had brothers, which gave a shade of respect and spoken at some small meeting of religious admiration to the love which the younger bore people, (which he interpreted, I believe, to for the elder, yet did not prevent mutual sym- be an assuming of the priest's office) he sepapathy and warm affection in both. They rated himself entirely from my private friendwere baptized by ministers of the Church of ship and acquaintance." They never met England, and raised within her pale. Their again as brothers, until each had become boyhood and youth were passed in the training an open denouncer of the religion of their of the preparatory school, and in the year early days. They shook hands over a com1823 their names were both on the rolls of plete and mournful apostacy. the venerable University of Oxford. The declension of Francis Newman began The elder brother was already Graduate about the same time with that of his elder and Fellow of one of the Colleges, and also brother. But his steps wandered in a widely Priest of the Church of England. He was a different direction. Popery was, and is, the scholar of some eminence — a man of various object of his "contempt, hatred, disgust and culture-a_master of a clear and masculine horror." Infidelity, bald and blank, is the DR. MURRAY IN ROME. A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Observer states that at the meeting of the Irish General Assembly, Rev. Dr. Murray, of New Jersey, thus spoke : faith he has taken to his soul, in place of the evangelical sentiments which he abandoned His descent into this gulf was also gradual. Starting by discarding the doctrine of the imputation of Christ's righteousness, he flung away from him successively the doctrine of the Atonement—the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the IncarnationDr. Murray said he had just come from the doctrine of the inspiration of the Word, Rome; and he told them some very striking until at last, when he turned to examine the facts, partly illustrating the mode in which remnants of his mutilated creed, he found, to “model Romanism” is conducted, as to liberuse his own words, that his "historical con- ty, religion, and morality. He told a fact to ception of Jesus had so gradually melted into show how, in the Papal States, the property dimness, that he had receded out of his prac- of a man becomes the property of the priests. tical religion, he knew not exactly when. "A man in Rome had married a Spanish lady; Now, he defines religion to be a "state of he had a large family by her. By his will he sentiment towards God," (a God being yet left all his property to his wife and children. left) which may include almost anything, but in his hands does not include faith in Christ, or the affections and sentiments whieh are the fruit of the indwelling Spirit, ROMAN LIBERTY. But, though during life, he had paid little attention to the priests, he sent for one, just before his death, to "fix" him for his journey into the next world. The priest conTo show us the downward steps by which fessed him, anointed him, gave him the wafer, he reached the abyss of total unbelief, he has and the man died, leaving his property setA few days published two works, much of the nature of tled by his will as above stated. auto-biographical confessions. These letters after the burial, the priest, who had "fixed" are enough to make the heart sad. The first hin., went to an ecclesiastical court, said the book, published in 1849, is entitled "The victim had committed a great sin, and that he Soul, her Sorrows and her Aspirations. " wished a distribution of his property different The second, published in 1850, is called from that he had made by will; and the en"Phases of Faith; passages from the history tire property of that man, on the oath of that of my creed." Alas! could he not perceive priest, was swept from his family into the cofthat the "sorrows" of the soul can be as- fers of the church. This is what they do in suaged only by the tender sympathy of him the Papal States. "who is touched with a feeling of our infirmities?" and its aspirations satisfied only "During all the time I was in Rome," with those immortal dignities, and that ful- says Dr. M., "I did not see a single newsness of joy to which he lifts his saints? Or paper, except those that came from England. could he not perceive that "phases of faith" The liberty of the press is not known there; were the fluctuations of a mind that had not and the liberty of speech just as little. given sincere heel to the teachings of that un-saw there a placard about Pietro Ercoli-a changing Word which "endureth forever?" man thirty-five years of age, a merchant of Had he listened to it, in humility and candor, good character, and with a large family, who there would have been no materials for the had been brought before an ecclesiastical "history" of his short and mournful creed. court and condemed to the galleys for twenty This endeth, for the present, one chapter years. For what, do you think, he was conin the history of the two brothers. The fair demned? For stepping into a coffee-room, and promise is blighted. The goodly hopes endeavoring to persuade a man who was smokwhich they may have excited, are dashed, ing, not to use cigars. But why punish him apparently; the Church and Christ's cause so severely for bidding a man not smoke ci have lost much. But God, ever and anon, gars? Because the church gets a revenue enforces, by just such examples, the solemn from tobacco. The conduct of this man was words of the prophet: "Cease ye from man, represented as an interference with the revenwhose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein he ues of the church; and because he had asked M. B. G. a man not to smoke a cigar, he was condemned to the galleys for twenty years. Such is poitical liberty under priestly rule. " is to be accounted of?" I MORALITY AND RELIGION AT THE FOUN- Dr. Murray gave much striking description of the aspects under which religion shows itself, not only in Rome, but in Naples, and all over Italy-adding after each, “And such would Ireland be if Protestantism were ban MOORE, THE POET. It would seem that even attachment to the ceremonial of their religion is gone in Rome. "There is neither morality or religion in Rome, says Dr. Murray. "I went into is hed. " But he added, "I dare not describe the Pantheon, of which you all have heard; the immorality of priests and people. and the figure of which must be before all your eyes. It is a building, the foundation of which was laid during the reign of Paganism. It is the temple where all the heathen gods were worshipped, and at the present time it is A SCOTCH paper says this fine genius-and the temple of Popish idolatry. It is a circu- it is a sad fact that intemperance is the causelar building, and here and there, and all around is but the wreck of the brilliant, accomplished are altars, at which mass is said probably and witty being he formerly was. He was once a day, one priest at this altar, another lately present when a gentleinan was requested at another. I was at that temple looking to sing. The gentleman sat down at the piano round me, when I perceived a dirty looking and in token of admiration, sung one of the priest, and a dirty looking lad whose head Irish minstrel's own choicest strains. When seemed as if it had not been combed for a he had finished, the poet exclaimed, "How week-waiting upon him at an altar, and beautiful! I have surely heard that before." giving out the responses. The priest, that lad, myself, and my valet de place were the only persons present at the ceremony." There is no one but must be deeply affected, "The harp that once through Tara's halls Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls EXECUTIONS IN CHINA. “I was in St. Peter's in the morning when mass was said. St. Peter's, which is the most magnificent building of the kind in the world, ought to be dedicated to the arts, not to God. When one sees it, he cannot expect to see anything like it again, just as one sees Mont Blanc, you do not wish to see any other mountain. In that magnificent building, capable The New Haven Palladium publishes a letof holding some 20,000 or 30,000 there were ter from Canton, which contains an account not more than three hundred present at mass. of the horrid butcheries that are perpetrated I have no doubt one-half were strangers; and under the name of capital punishments. Duamong all present, I do not believe there were ring the past year there have been four hunten Romans. I went among the churches of drea and forty-four executions in that city. Rome, gorgeous beyond description. I went One female, who had been convicted of adulin at all hours of the day, I may say all hours tery, and the murder of her husband, was of the night; as both day and night I went to condemned to be cut to pieces, or, as the sensee what I could see, and hear what I could tence ran, to be executed by eight strokes or hear; and I am here able to say that I never cuts of the knife. The death-warrant, as translated, was as follows :— "According to the imperial will, cut to pieces, that she die, the culprit woman, named She Wang, who listening to the adulterer, poisoned her husband, so that he died-and expose the head to the public. " saw an individual, man or woman, who wore a decent garb attending at the confessionals. I never saw a solitary woman bow the knee at the confessional except a beggar woman. I never saw a solitary man go on his knee to receive a wafer, except a pauper. Men and women of character and rank keep away from The mode of punishment is thus described: these churches; and the churches themselves The two first cuts are by a small knife, by are given up to boys and beggars. It is amaz-which the eye-brows and the skin above are ing in the magnificent St. Peter's, to see boys so sliced that they fall over the eyes. The in rags playing hide and seek; and beggars two next cuts displace the fleshy muscles of standing here and there saying, 'give me a pen- the fleshy part of the arm above the elbows, ny. Go where you will, you see nothing like so that they fall below. The next two cut devotion; you hear nothing like preaching. " the breasts that they turned over. At the seventh stroke the knife is changed for a lar-That God at whose frown proud empires fall; ger one, which the executioner seizes with On the pomps and pageants of life they've one hand, and with the other seizes a palm trod, leaf fan, and puts it before the breast of the And joyfully answered their Master's call. criminal. He next thrusts the knife horizon called To bear his banner o'er mountain and main; tally through the fan into the breast, then Yes they are the mighty whom God hath turns the blade perpendicularly, and cuts down through the entire abdomen. The eighth stroke takes off the head. The fan To rend the chains of a world enthralled And lead them back to his throne again. Aye call them mighty, the champions of truth, Those watchers of Zion, whose banner is light, is used to prevent the blood from flying upon the executioner. This punishment, whether performed with eight or thirty-six strokes, is inflicted upon those who kill their parents, and upon wives who kill their husbands. All the criminals carry their death-warrant to the execution-ground. Their wrists are tied behind them, and they hold in their hands, in a perpendicular position, a bamboo stick. Their crowns are immortal, made brighter by death, And Heaven their kingdom, where loved ones unite. TENNESSEE. WHAT IS OUR LIFE? SELECTED FOR THE CASKET. For the Casket. THE MIGHTY OF EARTH. WHO are thy mighty ones, oh Earth!-- O'er the lowly valley and mountain proud ? Or are thy mighty ones, oh Earth, Have crowned them lords of a vassal train ? They have read the secrets of Nature's book, Call them not mighty, oh child of dust, But call them the mighty, the sons of God, As bubbles on the mountain stream As cloud-tints live in sunset gleam As meteors on a summer's eve, And on the heavens no traces leave As that fair star, whose light once fell Has nothing left on high to tell, Thus from the face of earth shall I Forgot, like thousand things that lie It is with no common pleasure that we lay before our readers another noble and most powerful poem from the pen of Miss L. Virginia Smith. Her poetical power is unsurpassed by that of any living author, and her taste and judgment are fit ministers to her genius:-Louisville Journal, TAKE ME HOME. Mother! my heart is chill- Give me some lulling lethean anodyne |