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siah the handful of corn was sown upon the| "The meaning is this: when the vices of mountains of Gallilee, and from thence it has Italy shall pass into France, and the vices of been sown east and west, north and south, and both shall overspread England, then the Gosthe angel having the everlasting Gospel to pel will leave those parts of the world and preach to the nations of the earth, is now pass into America, to visit those dark regions flying in the midst of Heaven, and men of all which have so long sat in darkness and the tongues and nations are pressing into the king-shadow of death. And this is not so improdom of God. And yet there is room. All bable if we consider what vast colonies in men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall this last age have been transplanted out of call Him blessed. The provisions of the Gos- Europe into those parts, as if it were on pel are simple. In Christ dwells all the full-purpose to prepare and to make way for such ness of the Godhead. a change. But however that be, consider The words of the Psalmist, my brethren, how impiety and all manner of wickedness do have never had an illustration more literal, reign among us; we have too much cause to beautiful and impressive, in the history of the apprehend that if we do not reform and grow world, than in the history of our own coun- better, the Providence of God will find some try. In every sense our origin was casting a way or other to deprive us of that light which handful of corn upon the tops of the moun- is so abused and affronted by our wicked and tains, whose fruit soon shook like the cedars lewd lives; and God seems to say to us as our of Lebanon. Nor was there ever a moment Lord did to the Jews-'Yet a while is this in our own history when the language of the light with you; walk while you have the Psalmist could be more properly applied to light, lest darkness come upon you. "" us, both in respect to what we have become, Such was the language of one of the most and in respect to what we ourselves now are learned, liberal and evangelical and nobleto the rest of the world. Our origin and his-hearted Bishops that has ever honored the tory are truly wonderful, and our example is English Church. The passage quoted from now producing results in Europe scarcely less Herbert, must have appeared very strange in wonderful. Our example is the handful of 1685. It must have come from a mind whose corn whose fruit is now shaking from Russia presentiments sprung from its inward harmoto the Mediterrannean, like Lebanon in any with the spirit of God's providential govstorm. ernment. The prediction is being filled much In speaking of ourselves, we desire to feel sooner, and far more extensively, than its authat our glory is of the Lord;, all the praise thor or the Archbishop ever dreamed of; for belongs to Him. We should have some pro- not only is America to be filled with the per appreciation of ourselves, in order that glory of the Lord, but she is destined to overwe may faithfully work out our high calling of throw the superstitions and idolatries and desGod. In our history and our progress, we potisms of the old world. Even now high see something of the designs of Providence, Tory writers in England acknowledge that it that should fill us with the profoundest grati- must devolve on America to uphold the power tude and the strongest encouragemeut not to and ascendency of the Anglo-Saxon race and faint nor to falter in the way to the fulfillment religion. Some remarkable paragraphs to this of our mission as a nation on the earth. Til-effect have appeared in the leading journals lotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in a ser- of England, and in Allison's History of Eumon on the 15th of February, 1685, expressed rope. By the Providence of God our seathe following sentiments respecting the progress of religion in America:

"I remember, (says he) there is a very odd passage in Herbert's Poems, which, whether it be only the prudent conjecture and foresight of a wise man, or there be something more prophetical in it I cannot tell. It is this:

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand,
When Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames
By letting in them both, pollute her streams,
Then shall Religion to America flee;
They have their times of Gospel even as we.

coast confronts the world. America in 1848 and '49, and onward, is placed on an isthmus between the old Western world, and the old Eastern world. From her roll back upon Europe the waves of revolution, upturning, overturning and awakening the nations longoppressed to freedom.

At the same time America looks so far Westward as to begin, like the sun, to arise in the East. Already her arts and arms, her commerce and missions, have appeared on the Pacific, and Asia and China, Japan and Siam,

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and the Islands of the farthest East, are will still increase. There are many reasons stretching out their hands towards America. why immigration will continue and even to The day is at hand when intelligence from increase to this country from Europe. In the London to Canton will pass through the heart first place, there is a settled dissatisfaction of America. And New York, New Orleans* among the masses of Europe with the forms and San Francisco, will be the three greatest of society dominant among them—that is, cities on the Continent, and among the largest with hierarchy, aristocracy and royalty. This in the world. There can be no doubt that in dissatisfaction is deeply seated it increases a few years the Valley of the Mississippi will every year. It is sometimes quiescentbe connected with the Pacific by a railroad, sometimes dormant sometimes overpowered and the trade of Europe with the East in pro-and crushed but it is still there, in the hearts cess of time pass through our country. God, of the people-a deep sense of wrong, of in writing out the pages of history with his fraud, corruption and tyranny, that has grown own finger, when as yet they were imperfect, upon them for centuries. This dissatisfacordered that when the United States should tion has often manifested itself, and in probe prepared for it, the shores of the Pacific portion as the masses of the people become should come under their dominion, and that enlightened on the subject of liberty and then such discoveries should be made as would religion — in proportion as they come to unprecipitate a multitude of people upon them, derstand their own inalienable rights, and the carrying with them the institutions of the nature of a good government, and the simGospel; and that then, by means of roads and plicity, purity, and spirituality of the New canals and telegraphs, the Atlantic and Pacific Testament, in the same proportion they will should be in close and constant communica- be opposed to the forms of religion and govtion, and the commerce of the world would ernment that now oppress them. Various be a high-way for the expansions of Ameri- causes are assigned for the poverty, ignocan institutions. The events of 1848 in Eu- rance, degradation and moral wretchedness rope correspond in a most remarkable man- of the lower classes of Europe. But the ner to the events in America from 1846 to real, great, chief cause is bad government. 1849. They are all parts of the same wise And the worst form of bad government is a and Supreme Government of the World. form of Christianity corrupted by its alliance Whether we look at our country as to its with the State, and yet ruling through the number of acres and square miles, or count State. The Church and the State have made its millions of inhabitants, we wonder at the bargain and sale for the spoils, until they have rapidity of their increase, and admire our not only consumed the people, but have well free institutions. From whatever standing-nigh devoured each other. And the masses point we may survey our mighty domain, of the people have been sitting so long in having three great maritime fronts on the At-darkness that it is with extreme difficulty they lantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific- can see the light. The State and the Church making in the whole an extent of sea-coast have so long done their thinking for them, and exceeding five thousand miles - whether we so long used their sinews and limbs and flesh, survey our country by land or by sea, wheth- that they are slow to believe that they are free er politically or religiously, whether we look to use them for themselves. And as but small at its past or glance at its future, whether in districts have been aroused at a time, so their its own domestic relations, or its expanding past efforts have been but partially successrelations to the whole world, we behold a ful; but now by roads and travel, and a free magnitude of influence and of destiny that press, there is a sort of universal heaving up can fulfill their true ends only by the power of the masses, and the days of despotism are of the Gospel of Christ. numbered. The same hard government that One of the immediate effects of the recent produces deformities in the physical features revolutions of Europe, is to increase imigra- of the people, produces corresponding maltion to this country. I am not able at this formations in their minds and hearts. The moment to state the exact number of immi- physical deformities of the lower classes of grants to the United States during the past Europe, produced by physical suffering and year, but it is very great. And the number want, exceed the credulity of an American * We think the author should have said St. Louis. who has not seen it for himself. And who is to blame? Hard governments and the forms

-EDITOR.

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of corrupted Christianity are to blame. The and their children. Talk not to me of their ignorance and stupidity, and want of religion unworthiness, nor of their vices. It is enough among the slaves of the Spanish Islands is that they are wretched. It is enough that all this to be attributed to the negroes, or to they are within reach of our sympathies. A their masters? I will not insult your intelli- stranger, and you took me in is worth infingence by showing that the responsibility rests itely more than all the sagacity ever displayed upon the Spanish Government. in detecting imposters. I repeat it, then, our first duty is to receive them kindly; make them feel that we are a Christian people, and that we look upon them, not as brutes, but as men, made in the image of God, and heirs of a glorious immortality.

One of the effects of the recent revolutions of Europe has been to unfetter the press. And as knowledge is imparted to the people through a free press, so will they gain information concerning this country and about their own rights; and in the same degree a Secondly, We should provide for their immajority of them will grow stronger in their mediate wants. I have not time now to amaversion to their oppressors and in the desire plify the way in which this should be done. of finding a home in America. Our duty to Doubtless, however, poor foreigners, who are immigrants does not properly come within thrown into our large towns and cities, should my present purpose, but I cannot forbear to be sent as soon as possible into the interior, say that it comprehends the three following where there is room enough and to spare; and things:where, in one twelve month after their arriFirst, To receive them kindly. The earth val, they can all support themselves. They is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The should be protected against the land-sharks Almighty has not given this earth to a few who infest our wharves. They should, by families of any one nation and to their de-means of cheap tracts and newspapers, be inscendents only. He has not patented out this structed in the nature of our climate and soil, glorious land to any royal lines. He has and the way to get into the interior, and the made it the asylum of the oppressed from way to make an independent living. I am not every clime-the home of the brave. The now speaking of religious or political tracts, ragged, the outcast, the starving, the ignorant, but of tracts for the people on common subas well as the educated, the refined and the jects.

wealthy who seek a home amongst us, should A House of Refuge, or an Asylum for the be welcomed to our shores. And the country Poor of all ages, is very much needed in this of their adoption should not be their step-city. As our police is now administered there mother, but fold them to her bosom as those is great cruelty and injustice in classing the born of her own vitals. I know not how any poor with the convict. To treat the youthful one who has ever seen Europe, can blame offender in the same way that the hardened emigrants to America. I know not how any villain is dealt with, is the way to destroy all American who has ever, when in a foreign self-respect, and to increase every species of land, been constrained to say, and as he has crime. Schools of Reformation and a Home journeyed amidst the most sublime scenery of for the friendless stranger are greatly needed nature and of art, been made to feel how in our vicinity. The man of wealth, who blessed and goodly is the heritage which the shall endow such institutions in New Orleans, Almighty has given him, can do otherwise will be a benefactor to his race, that many than open wide his arms to receive all that generations will bless. The foreign poor in are so fortunate as to reach the shores of his our streets is not a tithe of what it will be in own highly favored land. Instead of de-a few years. And the sooner, and the more nouncing instead of heaping opprobrious effectively some judicious mode of assisting epithets upon the emaciated stranger who has them is devised by us, the better for them and escaped famine, and violence, and the perils for us. American pauperism is a term that of the sea instead of driving them harshly happily has hitherto had no place in our hisfrom our doors, we should speak kindly to tory; but in our Atlantic towns, at least, it them; relieve their necessities; give them will soon call so loudly for relief, that legisgood counsel; make them feel that they are lators, and citizens, and property-holders, as not abandoned of God and man; that yet well as philanthropists will be obliged to atthere is some human being that sympathizes tend to it. with them; that there yet is hope for them

Thirdly, We must educate the children of

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 church to 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 Can anything more be wanting to awaken Old World cause its inhabitants to seek a your pity and call forth all your sympathies ? home in the New, in the same degree are our They are our fellow-men. They are living in obligations increased to support schools, col- sin, and the only hope of saving them from porteurs, missionaries and pastors, throughout hell, is to bring them, before they die, to the length and the breadth of our country. Christ.

For the Casket.
MORAL TRAINING.

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 du the 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

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. Washington College, East Tenn.

eye.

From the New York Observer.

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THE TWO BROTHERS. THE PAPIST
AND THE INFIDEL.

worship, for one so smitten with the love of 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.

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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

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