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temporal ead eternal ruin, and that all their destructive influences may epesdily come to an ead. Derisow said that he had paid a visit to ie il Ese gE + 2 s i a character, with div of creeds and insti- ticcas"zho mer proved in some longing rears ai gird thus later as incapadie of # true spirit of union — 2 Mo belle in Christ to bes doa. men mecessary 10 ve in Christto be a Christian.» what in Christ? was a question which the now world. And as time rolled on those fork, would who would form private opinions of Ha Cariat. now growing up bad Jesus Christ a seetsfad Jeaue Gute, They bea ton, s kind of anon, the jesus y. jon, & anion. tgs adulterers peed ity im life. Numbers met together and did RY pious duty, and they were not harmed by it. A collec- to God for bless: tion of ‘met to help each other wasa holy ga- Peeveen thering. were but two obstacles to the on, laid down, and these were and wickedness. He a ee did hope the end of Christian mon and tn pul ‘women in America for the promotion of Christian union vnsaeet would come to pass. The Roman Catbolic church was ee i now in the hands of the Sheriff, with little of cle- whom 50,000 die an- mency. . church esnon oa oe been he thought the it yeet igen sf in upon wind, it was time that drinking of spirits Dalab ne mote anaes Be Teast, Ce): Lee were | should cease. ‘He hoped this would occur in hs lie time, not, sentence and would surely come. Christianity [a apenas ‘he left his children free from coa- therefore. ‘the speak- an '. ee ee a cunts’ Galon or was (hvu eal by Me, Taioy, fier which « gen: that he was glad to see them supporting this noble idea. | tleman in the congregation offared a few remarks on the He know not ‘whether it was to bo given to them to lead | enormity of the evils which flowed from this vice of in that ‘struggle of spiritual against material civilizs- | drunkenness; and of all the “isms”? that ever afflicted tion. ty was long, and the toil waa hard. The | humanity—Mormonism, hheathenism, or y other foes slumber, and in the future more danger may be | “ism’—there was none worse shan “ruwism The prayer meeting baving heen brought to a conclu- 5 sion, ‘the sotual bualtese of foe anniversary celebration > z E i i i E ‘TRUK POSITION OF WOMAN AN CIVILIZATION. | W8S in by the reading of letters apologetic from gon- "Rev. T. W. Hiccinsoy spoke subject. He said | tlemen who were expected, but who hed not been able the subject bad enlisted again the attention and | toaitend. The first of was from ex Governor mpathies of many. It had called forth the Briggs, expressive of the fullest sympathy with the cause ability of Mr. Brady, the strong rhetoric of Dr. | of temperance, and wishing the society properity, but Chapin, and the ideas of Lucy Stone, who vindicated | regretting his inability to be —— A similar lotter ‘woman in that voice gentle and jow—an excellent thing | was read from the Hoo. Henry Wilson. in woman—yet strong enough to have been heard from Dr. Tyg, who was to preside, was also said to be una- Maine to California, and across the Atlantic. He then | voidably absent. The chair was occupied instead by Jouy spoke of the miserable destinies of a s portion of wo- | TarraN, Eeq. He said, as he was not an orator he would Huanbood, and mentioned Charlotie Bronte and Caroline | Dot be ‘able to do justice to so great a subject; but he Norton as instances. How many others, even in the be- | would try to be like the poor and humble, thoughgioble ing of their lives, hac. touched us to sadnegs even in and generous woman who, in this State, once saved a child oir tuirth! The ead memory of Mrs. Siddons, who was | from under the wheels of sx omnibus that in afew mo- once a bright star in English society, was another in. | ments would have crushed it to death, and when asked if stance. She ‘could only hope that there might be some | it was her child, replied— No, but it is somebody's chili.” They were there that for a simiiar pur- save somebody's children from a death of intem- perance. (Applause.) It was now fifty-three years ago since he remembe! being on the ocean, sailing from New York to London. One morning, on coming on deck, he saw in the far distance great masses of some:hing white, looking like snow, which be took to beice. He sought the captain and told him of his opinion, and that officer suid “Yes, it was ice,” and added that he had never seen it before. The ice increased rapidly on them that day, and by 4o’clock the bon it was that oes - captain was on the bowsprit directing the ship, when the mate, in his terror at their position, got some spirits and became so drunk that ho fell down at the speaker’s feet. The part of the world hereafter where justice would be done to woman.’ The speaker dwelt at some length on his subject, which has been recently spoken of so often that it is unnecessary to follow him throughout. A prayer was offered up and a hymn executed, and the ing then separated. SRCOND DAY. Pursuant to adjournment the previous evening, the Young Men’s Christian Union held @ second anniversary meeting in Rev. Dr. Osgoed’s church, 728 Broadway, on Friday evening at 73¢ o'clock. As en the previous even- ing, the audience was very large. Richard Warren, Esq., presided. After a voluntary on the organ, Rey. A. D. Mier offered up prayer. Rev. Dr. Sawyer was the first speaker introduced, who selected for his remarks ‘THE TRUK AND FALSE VIEWS OF EVANGELICAL RELIGION. He eaid that in whatever tended to ameliorate the social and civil portuon of mankind we must always observe the potent influences of religion ; for, say what we would of man—consider him, if we pleased, a fawn or any other anima!—and still the fact was apparent and undeniable that he was by nature a religiou ba never existed, por never could. 6 form of religion man must have, That truth we saw in all the world around us. History was full of of it, and the earth ‘was covered with tokens of the fact. Religion lay ‘was surrounded witb it; and then of drunkenness appeared. consequence was that the vessel struck upon the ice and was stove in, and in forty minutes after the fine ship. As ghia dma fad agen vcbel as 4 and otherwise, and with twenty-seven men, women aad chil- dren, went to the bottom. For Lege ‘s cua woes ie ice, exposed to dreadful privations. strange as it appear, the drunken mate, who had been the cause of all their distress, was with them; he had blundered into the boat, and as he was there they could not throw him over- board. This was only one case. But he had seen somany of the disasters of drunkenness, both by land and sea, that he could never be silent when the matter was being agitated. He thon instanced the fact that in his native town there was aman of education and very highly re- spectable position doing business as a merchant - son contracted habits which eventualiy lead to q ness, When his friends retoonstrated with him he would feel ashamed, and say he only tock a social glass. a tice, however, grew upon him, and in the end his Decame entangled and embarrassed, and went to pieces. fuence in ft the acter of individuals | In six months afterwards he became 80 low and adandoned and nations. Although there might be im ail such | that.he enlisted in the United States army as a common lems disturbing causes, still it was in general | soldier, and was stationed with his regiment on Governor's )iee true, that if they were told what a people’s re- gion was, they could toll them what tae condition character of that people must be. Island. One night he got leave and came into the city, where he found the means of gratifying bis vicious incli- pation; and, drinking till he became iatoxicated, he lost bis hat antt shoes, and falling into the hands of the night ‘d, be was taken to the station house, where he died. was another instance of the effects of intemperance. and he hoped it would serve asa lesson. For his own part, he was opposed to the drinking of spirits of any kind, He has never provided wine in his house for his family—not because be could not afford it, but for quite a different reason. He knew too well how the inclination for drinking increased on those who were at first mode- rate. There was one man who by drinking became 80 wretched and brutish thet be actually picked up the filthy tobacoo which a dirty Irishman bad spat out and greedily chewed it up. There was another man in high life, a member of , who was such a drunkard that be employed a man to watch over him grapes |) DOF to troe, pare, Doly salvation: Long ago, in Assyria, Egy? true, pure. . Lang BO, iy Greece’ and Rome, and in Hindostan and eeaty et civilization which the human race had ever attained in any unrevealed Lome oe E an centuries ago ‘ubere dat ‘8 Dew era upon world. Out from themaa Fed of Bethlehem, out from the valley of Nazareth, out from Gethsomane, & utmost, when the human mind had wroughi its greates: achievements. It came with new ideas, entering the tianity precenied ivelf to them in a threefold form: it | continually, #0 that when he got into his drunken Ota he was a truth; it imparted a spirit; it went out into light. | should have aid. (nce this man was absent, and he was ‘What he (the speaker) ‘Wished the audience particulariy | obliged to supply his place with a negro, and «ne night to observe was, that things were not separate or | when the gy of Bete yh seized him from each other, but belonged together. Without | and roasted in the until the man yelled for Christian faith bow was & man to ‘® Christian spirit? He concluded by relating an anec: of 8 When the Jews asked Jesus what should do to drunken man who went to sit oo a barrel, but un- form the works of God, he answered, ‘Believe io him ly for him the barrel had no head, and he whom he hath sent.” That faith was to be the means of | fell in with knees sticking up to his chin in o their salvation. It was to change their hearis; it was to | most ladicrous attitude. Ho had some le to extri- convert them. Without this faith they remain as they | cate himself, and was kept back from his balf @ ‘were; with that new faith they became new creatures. | hour, and he got home late to tell his wife what he had 2s OE ee eee eee ae in. If any one kept empty barrols about tolic world. were wrought over the whole face | they would catch drunkards in the same way. It was the of society. A Teligion went out into the | first time he had ever seen a drunkard inatrap. His world with Christian and divine trath, and | own experience of tamperance was that for the last thirty- ol the assent of man, They knew | five years he had not been under the doctor, and for more how bad occasioned a war of ideas. Bo- oe Sis Jones Be RA Oe Dns SaaS ee Sore Cele nem Eeheen down, vee meee, tomes oat of avy kind. sbripes and all. fore this religion passed away old in- Dr. Mana, after offering a few observations touching the intrepidity of Colonel —that old yeteran in the cause, who had labored with so much untiring zeal—pro- ceeded to read the abstract from the aan port:— The eae ized the present extensive revival of religion roughout ibe coupiry, amd consequent cheering prospeets of the temperance cause. Intemperance is one pd oy antagonistic forces to the spiris of God; pot ly & destroyer of the bodies, but of the souls of men, and when the spirit of God Sear re eae munity, that tide of woe and desolation will be driven backward. Every hopeful convert may safely be counted on the side of temperance. Thirty years ago it was not 80. The divine spirit does not correct the scientific errors the world: and onthe ruins gradually rose up the new Christian civilization. It was the Christian faith, and man believed. They believed themselves in due relation and Proper harmony with it, and they went forth in the path of auty to bring other souls to heaven. Bat whai, it might be asked, did those men believe? He answered, that Jesus of Nazareth was Christ, the son of God, their inviolable and authoritative teacher. They believed that Christ did not come of himself, but that God sent him; that he did not speak the words of himself, but the God who sent him. He who believed in Christ believed that His word was truth—truth that Eons eamocrs. In that trath they raw God himself. In equal light of Divine revelation they recognized his character, and they recog- | of men. While men were taught to believe that alcoholic nized also the aims and purposes the Divine judg- | liquors were needful and useful, would use them mest. And knowing God, and knowing Jesus Christ, | after conversion as well as before. Hence thirty years th whom they came to « knowledge of | ago the churches, in revivals, were replenished with new. the Father, they knew also and had also eternal pte cee but often daily moderate drinkers, life within them. Now, he who believed in Christ had plague festered. fhe cry went up to heaven for deliverance. At meetings for prayer the total absti- Bence principle was adopted as the only remedy. Tem perance societies were organized aod spread over ‘he land. Churches, thankful for the blessing, shut their doors against moderate drinkers and venders.” And now, at the end of thirty years, scarce an evangelical church, pulpit or Christian heart admits them to fellowship, con- ‘Verte, multiplied as drops of morning dew, are now, as they are born into the kingdom of usually decided on the temperance principle. This has been our work— the work of the ‘poor wise mao. bas saved the city; but we say, “Not unto us, not unto ue, but anto thy name, 0 Lord, be all thegiory.” The jong and arduous efforts to and how were we to gather ? ‘among Christians who assert 7 people, and while they claimed the right understand the word of Jesus Christ, they denied Tight to others, and insisted that others should see it with their eyes. He said, then, that every men } who sincerely believed that Jesus Christ was | the Son of God—the fe King, the authoritative ; Teacher and Saviour man, was o Christian, and as euch was entitied wo bis reepect, his sympathy and his aifection. He might be but a beginner in the Gospel, yet, | he (the speaker) held him to be entering ‘ the kingdom. He might err in many things; but till he was a Christian Be had the root within him. He had the fundamental | s traific. tempted, but of little of demanded For five years joyed it, Other States claimed the Rven the Empire State, mercial is, had it given her. bound with a great chain; but its howlings were terrific. truth, which, if allowed to develope itself, would bring | A combination of wickdness, mightier than an; bim wo fection and to heaven. le might be a member _ before witnessed, was formed and every bar and bolt was of the ish church, or of any of the Pretestant sects, | riven, and the people were foiled in their effort for protec but be was still hie Drother in Christ Jesus, because he | believed im Christ Jesus. That was the true Catholic ground of union. It was also the true P’rotestant ground of union and, what was better still, it was the true Chris. tuap of union. They all eed in the great fundamental truths of the Christian religion. They agreed | io the authority and divineness of Christ. y only | needed « charilable temper in order to insure a blessed | and Gbristian union. Things were tending in that direc. | Yon. Let them ail take Christ as their and the pa sew plata and it before them. That union, ‘ever, did not imply a sameness of thought or opinion ton LF te ‘There was no failure in their princi ple or #ork. They were only foiled for a season. For more than two years they have been looking about them to eee what they could do. New York, and Maine ro. volutionized, have been offered protection by I roga- Inted licensed traffic , but they have it as would s lamb the of m well regulated licensed wolf. Rested from their overthrow, the people are again be- jing to rally for a new conflict. Maine has ratiied, and to day in ct better protection than ever. New Hampshire and Vermont stand firm in their mounta'n fastnesses; Massachusetts, slow bat ever sure, rallies ‘among men. Jndeed, he did not think that Godeven in- at the stronghold of ber enemy, and to-day, in the tendo! that should have such a sameness. He (God) | decision of r high court, she abates every uo loved varity. He loved diversity. Look at the animal | lawful eale of liquor, without judge or jury, as creation, and they could not find two alike, | ® muisance, and the old Tri-mountain rocks to God would not bave them alike. They differ. and fro like Etoa with « volcano shut up in her 4 in the form of their bodies, and they differed in the | bowels. New York will rally, Hor ple are form of their lives. The world would be insipid and ut- | filled with loathing at the farce of license while ten thou terly unendurable if everybody they met were to be and thousand carry on the work of death undisturbed, alike. Was it not better, then, to take things asthey and are horrified at the crime and pauporiem datly in founc them, and look at them fn a calm, phi! ie spirit’ | creasing. Here we stand at our twenty second anniver The Homan Catholic church vored "el a no | sary. Tn not one of the States is there a diminution of one mould. Ik was the great problem she had en- | protectioniate by prohibition. In some there bas been prot weariness and apathy in not one has there been a failure or retreat. We have only been foiled, and that for a season. The question is asked, Is there any advance in temperance’ Is there not more drinking aad drunken. ness than ever? Are not organizations at an end, and is not the cause dying out? The report does not care to answer, Let those make it their theme who will There are drinking and drunkenness enough to make & jubilee in hell, Once we counted on our organi deavoring to solve for centuries, and as far as that went she suoceeded in making dolts. How much better had the Protestant worl’ been’ Protestants demanded the right of private — but a they obtained power — damnes ¥ man who did nm | judge with their minds. phantymscicady t BuLLOWs was next introduced to the audience, and At some length on ‘the influence o! theological theo: ree «| the practical conduct of iif: Devt I. Peosmmensn, of Joreey’ ty, spoke on “the | zations; we boasted of our legions ; they wore ser. proper treatment of the infide| tenete four day | viceable im thelr day. Now we think more of prin Rev. Dr. Ob and several others were announced to ciple. One great og firmly esablished governs a follow, at stage our reporter left. nation—governs a world. It is like ® rock in the ocean -——- there ia no destenction. Once established—‘' the right of Amertean Temperance Union. mischievous bu ne Property lem nuisance, no protection by ih the criminal, only of his unhappy victim.” and | nese and the drunkard maker with ail his guilty ap pliances, will goon disappear. The report briefly alluded ‘\ the two great parties in England and Scotland rending each other, the moral suasionmt mistaking a foiling of pro hibition in America for a failure, rushing on with more force against drinking customs, and ing probi bition the prohibitionist jeering at the delasion and mis take, demands the immediate closing of the grogshops as the ouly hope of Britain, A persuasive bill is mow beiag ‘The twenty-second anniversary of this society was heid ‘on Thursday evening in the Church of the Puritans, | aion Square. There was a very fair attendance. Prior » the public exercises an hour was devoted to hearing the ex. | perience of persons soquainted with the evil effects of Phe wale of liquor, and in prayer for the conversion of | tqvor dealers and all who are engaged in promoting in @mperance, that they themselves may be sayed from upon Parliament that every town and city may by popular vole @ Meine law to itself. The oirca- \stion of tracts, journais, children’s }, cards, &c., from the office, much as in former years, and embarrassed by the commercial panic. The Rev. . PROK, of the Methodist New York, then addressed the }, Showing tl fi i ij 4 Fy E g i a! i ts £& f g 4 if iE ad j i 5 = te a : i ? H i language. foll under the cruelty of the Sepoys. The Rev. Mr. Free. | gtven up to man and his wife (tor he was married agein) were taken | make yous ee ete ne nates, nk bere the grace of wes child of child whom they had | was tameduees. to sow BE, and whem they (the audience) a would remember in their prayers would close that | the meoting, lHostrating thet B of Soripture: “When my diffused. father and motber me, Lord willtake me up.” | that the ‘She would recite the Lord’s Prayer in the lan; ofsigns. | Biam, &e., still he ‘Migs Freeman did 90 accordingly, ia an impressive man. | wide sea, where ner; and the exercises concluded with prayer and bene- | The reverend diction by Dr. Adams. ters mentioning cases 3 5 Theodore Frelinghuyson, President, took the chair. | * Companion for ‘The following Vice Presidents were present:—Hon. Homan | had been Lincoln, of Boston; Dr. Thomas Cock, of Now York; John | sized in a boat three times, Tappan, Faq., of Boston; Hon. Luther Bradish, of New | {his time bed boon his Bi Yerk; Hon. Freeborn Garreteon, of Dutchess county; Hon. | bound and A. B. Hasbrouck, of Ulster county; Hon. E. A. Newton, of ing i enna Massachusetts; Wm. B. Crosby, B. L. Swan, James Lenox, Secretary report, show! ‘that the rig had only received $1000, and was oe ia dav “000. A missionary from Anitab, Abia, The proceedings lasted until s very late hour, and the congregation drop} away by degrees, eo that by the hecho Denediocken was prone yunced more thaa one-half New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. INTERESTING EXHIBITION—THR LANGUAGE OF SIGNS —POLITICS AMONG THE MUTES—A OHILD OF MIS- FORTUNE. An exceedingly interesting exhibition of the pupils of this institution was held on Thureday afternoon, at the Academy of Music. Immediately after the hour announced (four o’clock), that building, capable of accommodating six thousand persons, was crowded from the floor to the roof. On the stage were the pupils, the female portion of them dressed almost uniformly in white muslin; and near the front were placed two large slates, on which to inscribe the answers given during the exercises. The pupils all appeared to be in excellent health, but were seen somewhat to disadvantage, for the reasons that they had come down the river a distance of some nine miles, and were 80 seated that they could not see what was going on, and this caused some to wear a fatigued and jaded look; but we were assured that, generally speaking, ‘they were even more cheerful than’ blind persons, who are proverbially so; and the answer to a question, ex- pressly put in the course of the exercises, bears out the truth of this statement, and affords a wonderful proof of the benignity of Divine Providence. The object on this occasion was simply to exhibit the progress of the pupils, and no was read; but some articulars es to the institution will not be out of place Bere.” — been in existence isn foe years,and by an e |, accepting @ pro position made b: the directors in April lest, it has become in form and neme what it previously was virtually—a State institu- tion. Under this arrangement the Board transferred to the State property of ihe value of nearly $500,000, subject to incumbrances t> the amount of $180,000. This has been principally the accumulation of the donations of citi- zens of New York, but considerably increased by their own foresight and good management. About eighteen months ago they removed from their original quarters to Wi Heights, on the North river, where a new edifice has been built for their use, not yet quite com- pleted. At the date of the report made to the Legislature in March last, the number of pupils was 302, being a reduc- tion from the numbet the previous year of 13. is 306. On this subject the during the year is mainly drawal from school, by parents, of several pupils who were entitled te several ad- itional years of instruction. Ia thus rejecting the offered ae eee eee oe incur @ grave responsibility, w! we hope they may bs able to sett'e satisfactorily with their own consciences. The cases are few in which the advantages a deaf mute pupil of three to five years’ standiog will derive from another year or two of intelectual, mechanical ani religious in- struction at the institution, will not be far greater than any be can realize by a premature return to his femily.”’ On this point they desire particularly that parents should be enlightened. As in other similar institutions, pupils are received from other States, their board being paid for. From the Treasurer's account last year, which ts sepa- Tate from the account of the building fund, it appears: the receipts for the year 1857 amounted to $43,649 52, and ‘the disbursements, including the balance of $1,866 36, due the treasurer at the close of the preceding year, have been $59,760 67, leaving on the first day of January, 1958, a ba- by Poter Sinclair, of lance of $8,898 85 in the hands of the treasurer. Tue puplla are divided into eight classes, and there are besides the Vice Principal and Instructor of the head class, Isaac L. Peet, A. M., fourteen professors and teach- ers. Of these eight clagses three were selected for exhibi- tion y , 48 affording fair samples of the success of the system, viz:—the firet, or the one year class; the fifth ‘year clags, and the high class. The exercises were opened by the President, Harvey P. Pam, LLD., detvering an address, in which he explain: ‘& lucid and interosting manner the s; y to communicate ideas to the minds of toons whe werd Hf who had received the bevefit of this instruction, with thet in which were when first admitted—io total mental darkness. e natural language, 50 to speak, of the mute was signs, and this Preferred to the tedious method of ‘spelling out words by the manual alphabet; et some had attained such proficiency as to ex} their his very fully and expli , and they did not des pair of their even aequiring the habit of thinking in lan- guage conveyed by words, ‘The first, or youngest class was first introduced to the front of the stage, and wrote upon the slate the answers to simple questions propounded, and interpreted to them by signs; as, for inetance, “What is your name?’ “Where do you reside!’ “How oldare you?” The fifth class were as to their studies, and replied by a similar medium. One not baving enut the Holy Bible, wrote in answer to a second question:—T did not mettion the Bible, because every one knows that that ought to be studied.” To the question whether it was a small heuse, one answered, ‘‘It is not a small house;"’ aa- other wrote, ‘It is a very large room.” The bigh class, examined by Isaac L. Peet, A. M., dis played extraordinary efficiency, both in writing out their ideas in unexceptionable language, and in expressing them by pantomimic signe. ‘The teacher, as the questions were severally proposed, interpreted them to his lls by means of the manual al- pbabet, and then more fly by their usual and more fa- vorite means of communication by signe. The answers eee ee Bee em. It may be here observed that the writing in form and bape was generally very good. Indeed, the writing of these persons is upivereally admired. ‘The subject of the occasion was proposed to them, and they severally wrote upon it, expressing their gratifica. on at the interest taken in their institution, hoping that their exercises afforded pleasure, stating tha, previous to their admiasion to the institution they had passed their lives in darkness, and that now most of them were ele- ‘vated to the hij realms of knowledge, and all to a knowledge of Creator, and thanking the patrons and oMoers. To the whether they would rather be deafand dum) or blind, some very pretiy angwers were given —all exproesing contentment with their lot; and one of them, all to the building in which they were, wrote to the effect though he could form no conception of what music was, and bad no doubt that it possessed great charms, as was evidence: in its effects on others, yet. pro- fane as it appeared to say so, in its own tompis he Must avow bis preference for beauty. desired to be questioned on the subject of their studies, and were asked accordingly—How long did the Babylonish captivity last? To which they replied cor rn , about seventy years. ‘They are ‘evidently up some on the subject of politics, and have ir opinions, for on the subject of “Henry Clay’? one expressed bis belief that if that states man were living be would exert himself for the alleviation of the sufferings of bleeding Kansas; sentiment which created some merriment The ibitions of the art of expressing thoughts and was particularly pleasing: they were, in womimic performances. The pric a Mr. bn Goshen, a member of who very cleverly re ted the pro , of riding at @ sharp Wonca s hard road, a dose of medicine Mr. Rocwe, also of the high class, went through the nigns 6x} ive of the feeling and action expressed in the poem “Lord Allan’s Daughter,” with good oltect. Mise Many A. GoonRicn, a pretty litle girl, qpnt through in lke manner, and very pretiy style, Aemao's ‘Better Land.”’ A dial written for the purpose, very cleverly por. formed by a boy and girl apparently about ten years old each, followed. Mr. G. 0, W. Gawacr, formerly a pupil, now a teacher, iNestrated Collins’ “Ode on the Passions,” in the same mute language. Miss Garrevoe Water went through a passage from “Evangeline,” after which The Rey, Wititam Apams, D. D., of Madison square church, and one of the directors of the institution, intro. duced @ young lady in the following terms —He would not tell her, he eid, what he was about to say, nor would it be interpreted to her, for they would agree with him that ‘here had been #0 man, bem | incidenta, such & com Dination of misfortane, surrounding that child of Prov, ceneet-their child, for whom they felt a special care and affeotion—that it would be too much to repeat them to her She was a daughter of Mr. Freeman, one of the Presbyte rian missionaries from the Unite1 States to India. Sho wae born fourteen years ago, in India. Hor mothor died, and she waa left in that foreign land with none but tho father's care, at an ago when she so much needed the care and ‘solicitade of & mother. Five years ago she was put on board ship and sent to some friend in the United States, under the care of Mra. Scott. When the ship was throe weeks at sea Mre. Scott died, and this little group of orphan children, under the care of the cap. tain—a humane man—wore taken to Fngland, and thence b That child had a grandmother still Hving, but abe was brought to this institution, and placed under the excellent care of the matron and all bad charge of it. He need scarcely announce that her father was one of the group of Atnericam missionariog who lately and Francis Hall, of New York. ae ae ‘The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and Dr. Berauns rorennts from forelgn’ couse ‘Tne Rev. Dr. Wooptmpes, of Virginia, read a portion of | them without the Scriptures and offered prayer. Resolved, That Acommittee was appointed to report saitable persons to rage: fill the vaoanoy of the class of directors whose term had | ¢,s04m expired; that comm'ttee reported, and the report was ac- | had furnished cepted, as follows:— Space from Ue weet af areas Vt woald otherwise have imothy Cornelius Dabois, jerick T. wate Wood, Waskington R. Verily, Taward 3. Woot, se a sey, Robert Carter, Marshall 8. Bidwell, William M. | Mao. Everts. and sublime ‘There being no further busineas to transact, the society then repaired in body to the Church of the Puritans, Union square, where the usual anniversary exercises | §2°tthiitny and ofan chaouc, “God in the Degianing were to take place. spoke to our first parents and to their immediate offspring, ‘The church was filled to its utmost capacity, and seated | but when men in the pride of thelr wicked hearts were upon the platform were many distinguish®d clergymen willing to retain him in their imagination, they chang- from different sections of the country. At ten o'clock the exercises wore opened by the Rev. Dr. Harrretp reading the first chapter of the Epistle of St. Peter and offering prayer. President Freuinauvrsen then addressed the mooting, He said: This anniversary will hereafter date one of the 5 pame of heathenism, and out God in the world, but witheut virtue. All was gono when the centralizing, harmonizing and comprehending i j li E iteiet g ak £ i . fg He rf : I E | ‘What, the ladies? Caneiien) i i F zee : F Hg aul aie Hates i E f 5 i & E i ii if Ii ! i i i ways agitating. The in conclusion, feeling alluded to tained by the death of Dr. Tyng. Rev. Mr. Wartixa, of New Hi ration by the last speaker had no He wished to say thal represent- tog his church were not slaves, mor never ‘would be slaves. shire, loss g ; E ar i fe (Cheers.) He wis from New Hamp- Ho considered it a good place to emigrate from— all over the @uatry they would New in arch. his own friends from New Hampshire had a Rev. Mr. Eustace, of Now Haven, said when he was called upon to address them that evening he was desired most, seasons that ever blessed our fallen world. | doctrine of God was taken away from the soul of maa. God has revealed his love and power in glorious menifes- | God left them to their own devices, and their very speech tions, asthe last few months give evidence. With no | was confused, and out of this came a multitude of lan- special means saneret, with no exciting influences to | guages. What more than geographical position separates awaken feeling, the voice of God has gone forth inthe | one race into 20 many distinct and often conflicting par- silent majesty of truth, conquering and to conquer. Tts | ties? But under the influence of that religion from which trophies have been multiplied all over the land,from | man de; at the rise of taal every class, condition and c! er, The spiritef God | wjjl yet return to its original unity. We find has wrought these wonders of mercy and grace; to Him | the of this im our own soulsa, When be all th tbe soul, weatied with the conflicts of diverse opmions, and agitated with the Cares 8nd Anxictieg of life, comes home to God, it finds a peace—that of , Which flils the soul to its utmost capacity. One of the heathen philoso- phers tells vs that virtve is the harmony of the soul, when every thought, affection, desire and motive are in 4 all His footeteps the more strongly illustrate the necessity and im} of His word, fie Bible meets the wants maa, Even the delu- sions of superstition and the extravagance of fana- the strongest reason aod motives for the diffusion of the true light from the sacred pages of inspiration. The deluded heathen mother, as sho offers | perfect harmony. Another one, copying from him, had her child to an unknown God agatast all the pleadings of Paid that when tt aball please the Divinity to take irom the heart, witnesses to the sad nocessity Human nature, in its griefs as well as in its joys and thankfulness, thirsts for an object on which to baao its de our eyes the mists, aa they were taken from the eyes of e shall then see what to us is now invisible— then shi e have the perfect mind, the fiaished reason, which is ali the same as virtue. The virtue of man is godless, and alitrue righteousness is peace. This willbo the effect of our bleesed religion upon the whole human race. Whatever might bethe ideas of cosmogonists, which are subject to alteration with (he progrees of knowledge; whatever might be the result of rei and acientific investigation, the Christian would find a sure basis and bappiness fer bis eoul in the Word of God, and he need not fear that true science would ever conflict with that word, because the (iod that made nature wrote the Bible. ‘When we examine the first oeclaration of the Bible, we will find no conflict there. God created the heavens and Diomede, calmness without it. Changes,sudden and uncontrollable, often theet us. How sball we meet them? The grave, that narrow pe tego living, ties across our path. What can relieve its or expound that gloomy | the earth, laid the carth’s foundations, gave it its beauty fact, to which every moment brings us nearer? | and symmetry; and, looking down upon his beautiful Nothing but the word of God. And alone | world, will He ‘abandon it? Can ® world go to change sorrow finds ® sure comforter and perplexity a safe | which came from infinite mind? The Bible teaches that guide. And the great laws of conscience plead for the | aj] nations originated from one" man and woman; and the Bible. It reveals princi 80 wisely adapted tothe dic- | noble, proudest of his genealogy, and the most tates of this witness id 90 truthfully simon: | lowly’ servants of man’s Decesty, meet in the ishes of its pleasures and pains—that no maa 19 one map; and the man who locks to the first into the wor! of his own heart can well fail of the | man who came from the hand of God, must firm conviction that the Lord of the conscience is the God | recognise every other man on the face of the whole ofthe Bible. @he of the brightest features of this blessed | earth as bis brother. Again, we are taught by ihe Biblo book is to bo traced in its peace 6) charactor. It | that the entire race of mankind have one common origin, not only reconciles God to man, but also man to his Sey'ell Sens oe Severna Se Dee As wo come brother. Nothing is 60 healing to the soul or s0 soothing | down in the history of God's providence (tho miraculous ‘ag the good words of the spirit of God, persuading to for- | portion of which was fin'shed, the er supposed, with speak the completion of the canon) other various indications might be ¢ scovered of the mighty influence to be exerted by the Word of God. When man contemplated the ware and divisions of all kinds between man and maa, the ii quiry is natural, sball there never be peace? How shall we speak to depraved and contending mav? Our hearts Prompt us to tell them the blessed tidings, but we cannot talk to them. The Bible Society here steps in and repeats the biessing of the Pentecost and increased ten fold. Too number of the different uages spoken at the time of the Pentecost, ag mentior ‘by the sacred historian, is small compared With the number which is now spoken; bu’ the Bible Society is bow speaking to the world by means of its different translations of the Bible, in moro 10 different languages. The accomplishment of this work could be regarded as a noble instance of the power of the Christian epirit to make great achievements in arts and science. Bible was to bring together ai! nations. ‘The different mations of the earth were being a this country by the direction of a Mvine Prot . They are all children of the first father, Adam, and we when it enjoins the charity that seeketh not her own—that bopeth ali things and endureth all ‘thi t suffereth and is kind—rej the miscalled codes of chivalry and honor, and rises to magnanimous temper of for- givenens, even ‘to seventy times seven.” Let us then be encouraged to spread abroad this only sure guide to duty and happiness. It vindicates its own claims as the eword of the spirit blessed of God—that shall never re- turn unto Him void, nor fail to accomplish His pleasure and prosper in the thing whereto He sends it. Hewry Freer, Feq., the assistant treasurer, read the treasurer’s report; and the Rev. Ur. BaicHam, one of the fecretaries, read of the managers. From these it a>- peared that during the year seventy-two new life directors have been added, and 1,589 life members. In the same time nine new auxiliaries, most of them in the new States Territories. The receipts of the year bave been $390,759 49. Of this sum $252,831 04 were from the sale of books, and $137.928 45 from dona. i tions and legacies. This income is less than that of last | have no right to exclude them. The er had ne sym- your, the difference being mostly in ies. The books rit the sptrh which ‘a foreiguer that he printed have been 250,000 Bibles and Testaments, | Eea'’no claim fo aympathy Deceuse be is n foreigner. and 500 volumes in letters for the blind, making a | Feelings of sympathy were aroused whenever he saw a total of 631,500. The issues of the year have been 716,578 | man fashioned in the of God a stranger, because he volumes, making 8 total, since the ation of the society, | saw the image ef Him who for his sake was a of 12,808 487. number of agents employed in the — —— bien io Oregon are employed in foreign count one in Brazil, one in America, on the earth and bad no: where to lay his head. ‘This is the sentiment which the Christian religion This, as it strikes me, said the reverend gentleman, is tne grand doctrine of our nobie democracy; and however much this word may be perverted, I 00 to avow myrelf in the save sentence a Christian & democrat. ince, 1 mean by that word a man who acknowledges his fellow haly), Turkey, Perea, India (Northern asd Sovibere). | man as hs equal, and to veo every mas the rights God 4 as given to him. The speaker here spoke at considera- Rev. Dr. Horxixs, President of Williams College, moved ble érient of the influence of the association and commin. that the » the abstract of which had beon just read, | gin of Giferent peoples asp condition of progress and be and printed. This society, as he un: noble achievement. India, half awake asicep, from it, was at work this moment in China, India, Siam, Per- | neglect of this condition fallen from the sia, Russia, Turkey—yes, blessed be God, the Bible at | which he waa inclined to assign her, of the mo- sae eae tah com eceiaaae cal maebeen eee ther of the sciences ani arts of the ancients, to tem which bad been soformidable. This society had the humbie and degraded place she now holds, been at work and was now working in Germany, Italy, Chips, from oxclusivencss, has fallen and through the whole of South America, in the West In’ | from ‘the high attainmeots wiilch she once evidently dies, in evory State and Territory of this land; in thearmy | made, and has made but little improvement comparative- and nay lucing simultaneous operations everywhere. | ly, Fngiand’s glory and nobleness wore duc to the olo- ments derived from the confluence of several nations within her limited borders; but she wag too little to serve more than as an experiment and type of the great work of Providence to be emer ama on this Western continent, vy, prod 7 Their will might now be propelling a boat up some branch of the Amazon, carrying the bread of life to those that were famishing. Nob only did they work like God in this respect, but they worked with him. It was wonderful to what an extent they were taught in the Scriptures that meet ities: God worked throagh his truth. “How delightfut was tue | "ies'equore meeting all the diversied qualities of dife thought of the extent to which this society was working | Hore the Bible was to be one of the grand influences in with the missionary societies abroad! Other societies | developin; nment, @ nation, in comparison with were nothing without it. The Bible was the basis, the | which the glory of the ‘ificent Roman empire should rock, the common ground of union of all Christians in the | grow dim. Ail this would be t ‘of the time when ell working of this society. The question was for them whe- | nations and tribes, not only of a world but of God's uni- ther they sincerely and humbly worked with God and for him if they could say they did, then Le wry A ony in the language that bad Toon read, there should be re served for them after their iabors sball be over, an inhe- ritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth cot away. Bishop McI:varve, of Obio, seconded the resolution of noo the » Since 1833 be Lad been absent from these anniversaries, @ period of twenty ve years, ‘and the reason of his absence was BO degree to be found in any diminution of interest in this work. fhe an- niversaries generally oocarred at the season which he versal empire, shail be gathered together, and we shall all be one, with the Son of Man, our elder Brother, God bemg the Father, and his glory the joy of the universe. The adopted. The Bev. Dr. Sonat of Constantinople, movi v. Dr. UFFLER, 5 od the fol! resolution— " Resolved, That when the Word of God and the Spirit of God are bestowed upon a people, they should not only be ar ceri teeter patente by Caristen dali gence yer same Divine may ee thus be extended to those who are without them, in our own and other lands, devoted to visiting the different parishes of his dicors. | “Whigh he supperted ib a very interesting speech, but pt a with intense interest the trials throug) | which was timnperioctly heard by the cndionse. 5B The Rev. Dr. Picwmen, of Baltimore, secoaded the reso- tien, He bad not designed to open his lips upon this oo- cas‘on until an officer of this body invited him to say some- thing to the reeotution. Glory be to the Holy Ghost, the author ct ubie inspired volume, for the work that had beea doe ip th apd other lands in tho last four months, and if the In Autnor of all true life and genuine holi- ness in this wor'd would contioue these displays of this sovereign power and saving energy for thirty monthe longer, the majority 0 the people of the United States— every person of fifteen years aad over—would be the open and avowed friends of the Sonof God It was thirty- had been Passing during the Inet year He did not int © eay a word should intimate in the least degree to side his mind inclined. He simply wished to say that from the maoner in Which this sociely parsed through that trial and managed its difticul- with regard God for the diffusion of the Gospel to ali the nations. He regarded that trial as God's " care that they be not charged with placing their depen- pen ae they relied upon the truth under (od’s agen- to bless it, upon the mere outward symbol of the truth. |-iwo years that day since he first attended an auniversary ne truth coud only be reached through ‘iod's grace. Of the American Bible Society. William Evans, the dear- resolution opting e report was then agreed to. | eat bosom friend he ever had out of his own lived ay, Dr. bo cad of Middletown, Conn., moved the | for tne Bible Society and kindred institutions; but his voice Resolved, That a due appreciation of the denign of God | [renew sienced in death. Ho was with hie tne as in the gift of the Bible, and « practical realization of the importance of Ita truth, would lead to more earnest ef. forte to secure ite universal diffusion. It seemed to him this day that this Society might address to ita thousands of friends this question, “ leveet thou the Bible?’ Tt wae from tnat belief, and in proportion to an appreciation of ita divine truths, that they must aid this cause, This and windred societies asked no attention to new experiments. Ita objects and principles bad been before the community and had received ite ‘sanction as in accordance wiih the priaciples of that Word which it would universally diffuse, for it sought to were—‘‘I commend Obrist Jesus to you; | have noth else to recommend There, too, was the maa who, of others that he ever raw, most completely resombled Wilberforce-—Milner, of blessed memory—who, if he had been asked what was his brightest ideal of heavea, would have answered as Wilberforce «lid, ‘eternal activi. ty.” But he was gone, He could name others just as dear to the friends of the Bible cause. If they would, they could pot now do anything for the Bible Society. It was just as much beyond their power to do anything for the Bible cause as it was for them to make a world, He had 8 friend in this State of New York, the Rev. Dr. Te » ive the Word of God—not marred by human hands—pure SSchver ton umes refined, Isis 6 fomilar foot that im. | The when the speaker was boy, just ordained to the portant trutha may be admitted, whose importance was iatry , re an eqenl, hot realized, and oftentimes familiarity with the trath and | Last summer he tp Conyers ante im, com paralyzed, suffer. epeated urging of strong reasons in ita nupport might the most severe pain. ‘Dr. Tenney, I am to preach the lend to dissatiafaction with and distrust of it. No traths were received with th afternoon to your old congregation; haye you any | favor by an assem| y an bly like Aw | this than thone relating to the divine fervor of the Nérip. | message lor them! 4 Yes, the message | have to send is } — = yet this yd in most — hp not Le they should all love the Lord Jesus Christ, in his | sul from laborious investigation or learne: ument it bad resulted from the earliest assoclations of life. | mercy, sad trust hab they have felt the powor of hie spirit in their hearts, remembering that what they do for the Bible Society, ihey must do goon, for the night cometh when no man can work The resolution was adopted. The bendiction being then pronouced, the exercises were closed, Thoy learned to reverence the Bible before they under- stood ite truths; and often was it the cage that while there was this ansont of the understanding, thero was not an | earnest corresponding faith that came from the heart ‘The very union manifest in this Society in one respect lessened Its efficiency: for whilo all orders of Christians | recognized the Bible as a common inberitance which they had received from God; while they believed that Aamioen Congeegetionsl Guten. The anniversary coliation was given on Thursday even- their interests and peculiar views would be pro moted ws its dissemination, they were | + to | ing in the City Assembly rooms, Broadway. A very Jarge give oir, first and most earnest efforta to re oe ae A On carne a this a | Number of Indies and gentlemen participated in the ~ ciety, reosiving = universal approval of all, | UBion. The ball room was divided into two compartments, could not receive the carnost efforts of any. The private | in one of which platform was raised for the speakers, citizen, having bis local and denominational interests to secure, it was not suppored that an association so general ‘and eo commanding aa this could want his support, ap- proval and influence. How many carnest and real friends of the society there were who think not that one of the ‘moet direct and efficient means of promoti they have in view was to give the Bible Would it not be well for su associations and such be nevolent men to consider whether it was not desirable for to recognize first God's remegy, and to remember ‘that, with a perfect understanding & all the wants of mea ‘and ali the evils to which their hearts were subject, he gave this Word as a remedy for all the ovils that resuitea from human corruption , lawlessness and passion? ‘The Rev. Mr. Jonm, Chaplain of tho jon's Friend Society, seconded the resolution. After spending more than ten years of bis life in a ship, carcloss, reckioss and ‘fand the other was devoted to refreshments. The rooms were tastefully decorated with flowers, and @ band occu pied the gallery, and played several popular airs during the evening. ‘The Rey, Bradford R, Wood presided. ‘The proceedings opened with prayer from the Rev. I. Beecher. ‘The Ciarewaw briefly stated the objects of the Union, which were to collect statistics, provide pastors for the destitute, and the building of charches. But that moet ing had nothing to do with the Congregational Union. The one comprising all denominations renent meetNg Teed not remind them that ono of the ——————————————————— to speak to them of the late religious awakening, and he @id so with pleasure. After alluding tothe death of Dr. TK, he referred to the meeting of the Tract Society the previous day. When the slave question was spoken of ciamorous applause went up for the trade; argument aad tho law of God was hooted. He was disposed to ask where was the evidence of this revival of religion? He could al- most catch the Vas) of his Diessed Master looking dows upon them with his glance of sad rebuke, as an artist had etched him, and saying to them, “Why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say.”’ ‘The Cuainman said that they would Lr gis yh the pro- ceedings of the evening with music, and led upom the bar gel to sing the third hymo, commencing «When | survey the wondrous,” &c. The Rev. Dr. aREST, of the Dutch Reformed cherch, then addressed the meeting. He said that an old gentle- man bad told him during that his native vil- lage in New land one ecmmotion by announcement that a Dutchman had ag- rived in town and he was expected to occupy the pulpit the following day. Tho population turned out en masse to bear what a Dutchman would have to say—whbat claims be might have to the genus homo. Now, those were days of , and he did not attribute the great gathoriag here to-night to a like cause—to sce a Dutchmaa. (laughter.) He (Mr. D.) would have been # Dutchman if he bad not beep born a Frenchman. The reverend gentleman then spoke of the recent revival throughout the country, and stated it had taken root in his section of the country. try. Rev. Dr. Crcxever, who was most warmly received, ad- dressed the meeting. Ho said it was in his heart to makea one too, but such was his speech, & good scruple that he would not Iike to say fsnything that would not meet with the approbation of all evangelical Chria- then be could meet the spirit of , and perbaps say something that would meet with the approval of ali evangelical Curistians, and Fed would adopt be policy of the ey et ee: wever, and make & omise by silence. (Laug! and loud demonstrations of ) Loud cries were made for Dr. Cheever to continae, when the Chairman called the meeting to order. Cu.amman—The Rev. Dr. Cheever cannot speak again, He is not abl Bees for Beecher.) ‘The Rev. Mr. cu, who had joined some friends at the end of the Led tel two reasons for me making a speech, and one is I got mo supper (laughter), and the other is that I have no speech to pet T made ita rule alwaye through life not to make a epeech unless 1 bave som to about, aod 1 do not intend te break that rule at this period of my life. Rey. Dr. Kxxyxpy, of the Methodist church, was the next speaker. He said, like his friend Beecher, or like their innocent friend Tucker, he came too late to get his supper. (laugbter.) Tho reverend gentloman ailuded which was pervading the congratulated them that they could all meet to. gether—every denomination and sect blended together for the glory of Ged. Dr. Tompson, of the Indepsndent, next presented him- self, and was received by loud and continued applause. He said be thanked them sincerely for their ie tried the other side yesterday, and he then éaid would stand agains} hissing till ten o'clock, but he was a4 wo them till that hour, He bad entered with a full heart into all the ousness of that occasion, but he thought he spoke the feclings of every heart when be said ‘waa & deeper and a more earnest for utterance than the mere exuberance of joy. He;then alluded to the death of Dr. D. an cloquent culogium upon his memory, ‘ing, the son had toid the father te “stand up for Jesus; but those who beard that father yesterday could say that he needed no such advies. from several clergymen who were unable to |. He then eorbe tent Saher gion wl year to the state of the metropolis in 1857. He considered good was effected by the opening of the prayer 1g In Fulton street, in the centre of the commorcial world, which was instrumental in causing the other churches to bold also. Consecration of the Memorial Charch. The Memorial of Bishop Wainwright and Church ef St. Jobn the Evangelist, at the corner of Waverley place aad Hammond street, was finally consecrated on Tuesday, by Bishop Potter, assisted by some forty of the Episcopal clergymen of this and neighboring cities. It will be remembered that on the death of the late Rishop Wainwright, the ladies attached to the several Episcopal churches of this city determined to build a free church as a tribute to his memory. Subscriptions were started in the various congregations, and in 1856 the coraer stone of the new church was laid. It has Seon completed for some time, but the dedication, from various causes, admired. It stands on ® lot 60 feet by 100 feet, and ia built of rough stone, painted white. The front is orna- mented w: pillars, and the whole effect ia neat and elegant. The interior is Plain bat tasteful, the prevailing colors being brown and . Over the palpit the words— POCCLOLOLODOLE DOLDOE LODE bt (iB MEMORY OF THE JUST 18 BLRWKD. ORL LE PERE RE DOLODDIODO LD DOOD IDDE PEPE PEPE: The religious exercises wore Sngering. At half.past ten o'clock the procession entered the eh im the fel- Jowing order — Wardens and Vestrymen. Clergymen, two by two, is taverss order, the youngest ‘and rector last. clergymen were present in their The The following canopicals The Hugh Rev; the Provisional —— his robes, Rev. De. Morgan of N. R’ste. Rev. J. H. Hobart Brows, Rev. Dr. Rey. Dr. Mablenberg, . Dr. Van Kleeck, Rey. Dr. Johneon, Rev. Dr. Cruse, . Mr. Upjohn, Peters Creae} . Daffie, dj om. a dozen other clergymen wore Te proc was received at the entrance of the churoh by the Church Wardens. After the clergy wore seated the senior warden handed the Bishop the instrament of donation in which the church was declared to be free forever for the worship of God, according to the rights, coremonies and usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ‘The exhortation and conseeration prayer were thom read by Bishop Potter, who also pronounced the follow- ing benediction: — Blessed be thy name, © Lord, that it hath pleased thee topwcteing te ben Seat cer SeLropta Aad Goole this howmmy the bene ot thie pions work may show 7 aenktainess, bY making a ‘right use of it, to the sorts or thy Diessgd mame, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. asual morning service of tho Episcopal church through with, afer which Rev. Dr. Mor- GaN, of St. ’ church, was introduced, and preached ‘© consecration sermon from the texta:— And T saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almirhty ‘and the Lamb are the temple of it. —Rev. xxi: 22, ‘And they come to Jerusalem. and Jems went Into the tem ple and vegan to caat ont them that bonght and sold there saying unto them, It is written, my house shall be oAlied the house of prayer, but ye have made ite den of theives — Mark xi. in The discourse was to show the necessity of churches ao one, ‘a8 men were im} fect and sinfal in their nature. While John could see no temple in his revelation of heaven, for the Lamb was the light thereof, Jesus recog- niged the sanctity of the sacred edifice in driving ite pro- faners forth from the temple, A church should not be too high nor too low, but should be a house of God, a gate to heaven, Nature may be called the tomple of Goa,