Ecclesiastical Record. DISSOLUTION OF THE PASTORAL RELATION. The pastoral relation between the Rev. L. Girardeau and the Wilton church was dissolved, at the late meeting of Charleston Presbytery, in order that Mr. Girardeau should take charge of the Anson street church for coloured people, in Charleston, South Carolina. At the late meeting of the Presbytery of Georgia, the pastoral relation was dissolved between the Rev. J. B. Ross and the First Presbyterian church, Savannah, Georgia. The Rev. J. L. Vallandigham has resigned the pastoral charge of Monokin and Rehoboth churches, Somerset county, Maryland, and has accepted a call from the late charge of the Rev. Joseph Barr, Newark, Delaware. He commenced his labours in his new field on the 1st Decem ber. The Presbytery of Newton, at their late meeting, dissolved the pastoral relation between the Presbyterian churches of Smithfield and Stroudsburg and the Rev. Baker Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been elected Principal of the Presbyterial Academy at Newton, New Jersey, to which place he has removed. Correspondents will address him accordingly. The Rev. John H. Brown has, in consequence of continued ill-health, resigned the charge of the Second Presbyterian church of Lexington, Kentucky. The Rev. Lowman Hawes, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, has resigned his pastoral charge, for the purpose of making a nine months' tour through Europe and Asia. Letters addressed to him at Huntingdon will be forwarded by his family. The Rev. E. C. Wines, D. D., has resigned the pastoral charge of the church of East Hampton, Long Island, having accepted the appointment of Professor of Languages in Washington College, Pennsylvania. On the 16th of November, the Rev. Hugh Hutchinson was installed pastor of the church of La Claire, by a Committee of the Presbytery of Cedar. At the late meeting of the Presbytery of Georgia, Mr. A. W. Sproull and Mr. James Stacy were ordained to the ministry. On the 16th of November, the Rev. Oliver S. St. John, late of Easton, Pennsylvania, was installed pastor of the Manhattanville Presbyterian Church, New York City. The Rev. W. J. Frazier was installed pastor of St. Francisville Presbyterian Church, by the Presbytery of Palmyra, on the 10th of November. The Rev. James Stafford was installed pastor of the Sugar Creek church, by a Committee of the Presbytery of Kaskaskia, Illinois, on the 24th of October. On the 10th of November, the Rev. R. Owen was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. The Rev. John P. Carter, on the 10th of November, was installed pastor of the Bethel Church of Harford county, Maryland, by a Committee of the Presbytery of Baltimore. On the 30th of November, the Rev. J. H. Lorance was installed pastor of the church at Courtland, Alabama. On the 9th of December, the Rev. Andrew Tully was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church of Harmony, New Jersey. On the 10th of December, Mr. J. M. Rittenhouse was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry, by the Presbytery of Donegal, at the church of Middle Octorara, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. On the 17th of November, by a Committee of the Presbytery of Baltimore, the Rev. Samuel Paul was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church, Belair, Harford county, Maryland. On the 4th of December, the Presbytery of St. Louis ordained Mr. James Gubby, and installed him pastor of the Presbyterian church at Malines Creek, Missouri. The pastoral relation has been dissolved between the Rev. L. H. Christian and the Presbyterian church at CamThe Presbytery of West Hanover, on the 1st of Deden, New Jersey. Mr. Christian has removed to Spring-cember, received as a member of their body, the Rev. Wilfield, Clark county, Ohio, where correspondents and others will address him. The Rev. Jerome Twitchell has resigned the pastoral charge of the First Presbyterian church of the Fourth District of New Orleans. CALLS. The Rev. William N. Mebane has received a call to the Presbyterian church at Milton, North Carolina. The Presbyterian church at Smithfield, Pennsylvania, has given a call to the Rev. T. B. Condit, now pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Stillwater, New Jersey. The Rev. R. H. Byers has accepted a call from the churches of Palestine and Bethel, in Eastern Texas. The Rev. Matthew B. Grier has accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Wilmington, North Carolina, to become their pastor. A. P. Botsford, a licentiate of Bedford Presbytery, has received a call from the church of Hughsonville, Duchess county, New York. Correspondents will address him accordingly. The Rev. Hugh S. Carpenter has accepted the call from the Fifteenth Street church, New York, to become their pastor. The Rev. David Kennedy has received a call from the Aisquith street church, Baltimore, Maryland. The Rev. John J. Carrell, of the Presbytery of Newton, has received a call to the church of Groveland, Livingston County, New York. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. On the 2d of November, the Rev. Ralph Harris, late Professor in McDonough College, was installed pastor of the Macomb Presbyterian Church, Illinois. liam Neil from the Presbytery of Florida, and on Sabbath, the 4th inst., installed him pastor of the Presbyterian church of Pittsylvania Court House. POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES. The post-office address of the Rev. John Peebles is changed from Parkersburg, Virginia, to Steubenville, Ohio. The post-office address of the Rev. C. C. Jones, D. D., late Secretary of the Board of Missions, is Riceboro', Georgia. The post-office address of the Rev. G. W. Russell is Campbell's Station, Tennessee. The post-office address of the Rev. Albert A. Morse is changed from Abbeville to Anderson Court House, South Carolina. That of the Rev. Isaac Todd from Troy to Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania. That of the Rev. David Waggoner from Exchangeville to Pulaski, Pennsylvania. That of the Rev. H. P. S. Willis from Dardanelle, Arkansas, to Memphis, Scotland county, Missouri. That of the Rev. W. Simonton from Northumberland to Sunbury, Pennsylvania. That of the Rev. James W. Dickey from Mansfield, Ohio, to Venango, Crawford county, Pennsylvania. That of the Rev. Vincent Millegan from Bellair to Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio. That of the Rev. C. H. Edgar from Bridgehampton, Long Island, to Easton, Pennsylvania. That of the Rev. John P. Carter from Hagerstown, Maryland, to Shawsville, Harford county, Maryland. That of the Rev. John K. Cunningham from Island Creek to Wooster, Ohio. That of the Rev. James Grier from Charlottesville to which they are told, on the best authority, (that of the Brownsburg, Virginia. That of Rev. J. Doll from Milton, North Carolina, to Madison, North Carolina. priests,) contains so many things against their Church. At first, too, the terms of Miss Cunninghame's release were her immediate withdrawal from Tuscany. Yet she is still That of Rev. N. S. Palmer from Carpentersville to New here; and, if it were needful, others might come too, and Washington, Indiana. bring tracts for the benighted Papists, who are truly thankful for them, and read them with eagerness. In fact, we have arrived at such an unexpected state of circumstances, That of Rev. S. J. Reed from Belmont to Chulahoma, as to call upon us more urgently than ever for increased Mississippi. earnestness and more fervent prayer. That of the Rev. J. L. Vallandigham from Princess Anne, Maryland, to Newark, Delaware. LICENSURE. On each of the four Sabbaths of Miss Cunninghame's The Presbytery of Charleston has licensed Dr. Corbett imprisonment, a sermon was preached to all the prisoners, as a probationer for the gospel ministry. DEATH. the doors of the cells being being left open that they might hear. The Virgin Mary was, of course, the theme, and the name of Christ was scarcely mentioned. Long fabulous On the 21st of November, at Demopolis, Alabama, the anecdotes were recited of the extraordinary merits of the Rev. Theodore Sayre, in the 48th year of his age. THE CASE OF MISS CUNNINGHAME. This young lady was imprisoned at Lucca, in the kingdom of Tuscany, for distributing the New Testament and tracts among the peasantry. At first the Duke absolutely refused to release her, even on assurance being given by her friends that she would leave his kingdom. Providentially that refusal has resulted in his confusion, and been made to promote the interests of truth and religious liberty. She has been released from her imprisonment, not as the result of a trial, but under the appearance of an act of grace. How much the fear of British power may have done, and how much the idea that a breach of the law could not be proved, may have effected, we know not. Miss Cunninghame, however, was unwilling to receive a pardon. She felt that she was an innocent and an injured woman, and desired to stand justified. One of her friends thus writes: "Miss Cunninghame is in spirit as in blood, a worthy descendant of the great Scottish Reformer. I copy her own words on her liberation: I have not accepted the Grand Duke's grazia. On the contrary, I said at once, that what he owed me n justice I did not wish to receive in grace, and that until I consulted my advocate, I would not go out of the prison. However, in the course of a few hours, I got another message to say that they had orders to send me out, and that they begged me as a favour that I would go, or otherwise they would be obliged to turn me out. Then, said I, give me a paper stamped and signed, to say that I am turned out, and have not gone voluntarily, which accordingly they did. I am told that one half hour later I should have had a decree from the Second Court in my favour, which would have declared that I had done nothing worthy of bonds, and, therefore, that the case could go no further. It is currently reported that the cause of this pardon is, that despatches came from Lord Clarendon to say, that if I was not set at liberty at once, the British arms would be taken down from the Embassy. It is considered here the greatest triumph, since the Grand Duke has freed me, because England has demanded it, and it is universally known also that I am declared innocent legally.'" Another correspondent writes:-"The anxiety of the authorities to get rid of Miss Cunninghame, by one means or other, was really amusing. They concealed but very ineffectually, the trouble and shame this inconsiderate capture had brought upon them; and, too late for himself, the Grand Duke discovered that the Ministers who had strenuously opposed his line of conduct had seen better than him. self the humiliation it would, sooner or later, entail upon him." Meanwhile, the result of Miss Cunninghame's imprisonment appears to be really blessed already. People are more anxious than ever to get these mysterious "tracts" which brought her into gaol, and to read that wonderful Bible, 66 Rosalia," a festival now in vogue; and the poor, wretched prisoners were informed, that if they recited the prayers of the Rosalia, and refrained from looking into the poisonous tracts which were being circulated, evil, and even the devil himself, would be powerless against them. THE HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Is the organ of the Boards of Missions, Education, Foreign POSTAGE, in Pennsylvania, 3 cents per annum. Paid annually or quarterly in advance. If not paid in advance, double these rates. CONTENTS. P. BOARD OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS.-The New Year, p. 3. Meeting of the Board, p. 3. What Good a Faithful Agent may effect, p. 4. A Church in a Cellar, p. 5. A Solemn Assembly, p. 6. Church Extension, p. 6. Encouraging Reports, p. 7. Receipts, p. 7. BOARD OF EDUCATION.-I. Ministerial Education. Agent for the Pittsburgh Field, p. 9. Hail to the South, 9. The amount of aid to be offered to Students, p. 9. Synod of Virginia, p. 10. New Candidates, p. 11. Hints to Candidates, p. 11. II. Christian Education in Schools and Colleges. Parochial Schools, p. 11. Waveland Academy, Indiana, p. 11. Greenville Academy, Kentucky, p. 11. A New Female Academy in North Carolina, p. 12. Synod of Pittsburgh and Jefferson College, p. 12. Westminster College, Missouri, p. 12. New Col lege in Synod of Memphis, p. 13. Hanover College, Indiana, p. 13. Aranama School and College, Texas, p. Receipts, p. 14. 13. 15. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.-Recent Intelligence, p. India Lodiana Mission; Communication from the Rev. Joseph Warren, p. 16. Journal of the Rev. A. Rudolph at a Hindu Festival, p. 19. Furrukhabad Mission: Journal of the Rev. J. F. Ullman, Mohammedan Mela at Shekhpore, p. 21. Missions among Romanists: Let ter from the Rev. J. P. Revel, D. D., Moderator of the Synod of the Waldensian Church, p. 23. Obituary: Memoir of Mr. M. S. Coulter, p. 24. Receipts, p. 25. BOARD OF PUBLICATION.-Books and Visitors appreciated, p. 27. A cry for Help, p. 27. "Let there be" Darkness, p. 27. The Synod of Memphis, p. 28. The Synod of Missouri, p. 28. "The Grace of Christ," p. 28. Psalms and Hymns, p. 29. Cruden's Concordance, p. New Tracts, p. 29. Catechisms, p. 29. Receipts, p. 30. MISCELLANEOUS.-Terms Reduced, p. 1. A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, p. 1. Christ's Advent-Books, p. 2. Ecclesiastical Record, p. 31. Case of Miss Cunninghame, p. 32. 29. From the Presbyterian of the West. "OUR PASTOR." "The labourer is worthy of his reward."-1 TIM. v. 18. "Our Pastor"- he who watches for our souls as "On last Sabbath, after sermon, I stated to the people the reduced terms of the Record, and urged its importance as a family paper, and as the most convenient way, requested those who wished it, to remain after the benediction, and give their names. The consequence was, that they remained almost en masse, and thus the Record is now taken in four-one that must give account-he who studies, reads, fifths of the families of my congregation. If my ministerial brethren, generally, would take this plan, your list would be largely increased, and missionary intelligence greatly diffused." We can but commend our brother's practical good sense as well as rightly directed zeal. He nearly trebled his list. Who will go and do likewise? thinks, writes, in order to meet the weekly draught upon him-he who taxes his whole mental, spiritual, physical being to please our fastidious tastes, that haply he may "win" some-he who duly as the Sabbath's light returns, is at his post, to instruct, exhort, reprove, comfort, strengthen, console us-he who cheers us in sickness by his tender ministrationshe who kneels by our death-beds, and commends The demands for our January number have more our parting spirits unto God-he who dispenses to than exhausted the edition. None need fear, how-us at the sacramental board the pledge of pardon ever, for the future. We shall be prepared to fill and acceptance-he who is ever present at our briall orders, and if the continued increase justifies the dals, and— expense, will issue a second edition of the January number. * "doth impose The irrevocable vow, and meek prayer, We take occasion to say, that from some quarters we have heard complaints that the Record is not an interesting paper. Now it must be remembered that he who stands beside our dead to utter the words of as to the matter, we are very much restricted by the farewell consolation-he who soothes our doubts, object of the paper. If that is uninteresting, it dissipates our fears, counsels us in every emergency must be either that our readers do not feel an inte--he who prays for us in secret, rejoices over our VOL. V.-3 where they experience sympathy and affection, than where they meet comparative coldness, and are left to struggle with want. In point of fact, it may be doubted whether there is any class of persons who are so much alive to offices of kindness as pastors. The most trivial tokens of affection from their peo repentance, or mourns over our obstinate rejection men," and can do more work, and do it better, of his message—he who, when he has done all, bears with our ingratitude, our caviling, our neglect, and loves us in spite of it-"our faithful, devoted pastor"-O! is he not, in the deepest sense of the word, a "labourer?" Did not Christ, with the strictest propriety, call his ambassadors "labourers?" "The labourer is worthy" of what? "His re-ple have often sent a thrill of joy through the enward." What is it? What is the pastor's highest tire tenantry of a parsonage, and moistened every "reward?" That, and that alone, which at first in- eye with tears of gratitude. And next to the supduced him to enter the ministry. ports and consolations drawn from above, they find encouragement and strength from the assured confidence and attachment of their congregation." So, very beautifully, says the aforesaid "address." By a call that goes deeper than the ear, God speaks the word to some gifted youth. He temporizes perchance, hesitates, doubts, struggles, decides and re-decides. "The ministry," (in the language of the address recently put forth by the Synod of Philadelphia,) holds out to him a career of severe toil, with a meagre sustenance-a family exposed to painful annoyances and privations-himself compelled to resort for collateral aid to some secular pursuit; and even with this help, every sinew put to its utmost tension in order to keep up appearances, and make the two ends of the year meet. He counts the cost-he is perfectly aware that "in any department of life, except the ministry, he may count with confidence upon acquiring a competent fortune" he sees it all; but souls are immortal, souls are precious. "Necessity is laid" upon him he must "preach the gospel." The language of the heart is, "Here am I, send me." God accepts the sacrifice. God sends him. He stands among us as our pastor." 66 Now will any one assert that all the reward such a man seeks is a salary? Perish the thought. His only adequate reward is souls-reclaimed souls— souls, that through his instrumentality, and because of his self-immolation, are destined to exult in inconceivable bliss throughout all eternity. Are you giving your pastor his "reward?" Did he find you a thoughtless sinner? And have his words impressed, soothed, sacrificed, saved you? Have they led you in secret to the foot of the cross? And yet you are withholding that knowledge from him? Then are you defrauding the "labourer" of his "reward"-his deepest, sweetest, holiest " ward." re Or, if he found you walking in wisdom's ways, yet have his tender counsellings often refreshed your spirit? Have you gone often to the sanctuary weary, and worn with earth's cares, and returned home again, rejoicing because of some sweet message from his lips? Has he ever heard from you, in return, a single word of kind encouragement-an appreciating comment upon his ministrations? If not, you are defrauding him of his "reward." "Christian pastors" "have like passions with other I have not spoken of the "labourer's" salary as his "reward," because, in truth, I consider it as his right, not his "reward." I put it not upon the footing of a "reward," because, by the law of God, an adequate support is the labourer's just right:"Say I these things as a man?" "Saith not the law the same also?" "Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel."" The Church is greatly culpable on this point. There is an apathy that ought to be done away with. Would it not be well if every congregation in our wide-spread Republic, were to take home, and prayerfully consider the question, "Is our pastor receiving a sufficient salary?" Do we need a constraining motive? Let us find it in the fact, that Christ, himself, identifies his "labourer's" interests with his own. He that despiseth you, despiseth me." "He that receiveth you, receiveth me." "God's care of his ministers is one of the prominent and delightful themes of the BOARD OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS. Business Officers of the Board. introduced, but also make that information as full and as accurate as may be in your power. We would ask it as a special favour, that you pay particular regard to statistical information, and should you be in possession of any interesting facts connected with your missionary work, that you would insert them under the head of "General Remarks." Your re Corresponding Secretary-Rev. G. W. MUSGRAVE, D. D. port will, of course, include the amount of labour Assistant Secretary-Rev. R. HAPPERSETT. Address, Mission Rooms, 265 Chestnut st. Philadelphia. LETTERS relating to Missionary appointments, and other operations of the Board, including CHURCH EXTENSION, should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary. DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS should be sent to the Treasurer; or, if more convenient, to the following per sons: J. D. WILLIAMS, Pittsburgh, Pa. performed under the appointment of the Board, from the 1st of March, 1853, or, if appointed since that time, from the date of your commission. As it will require some time to reduce into one, the numerous reports furnished by our missionaries, we earnestly request you, after filling up the blanks and completing your annexed Special Report up to the first of March, 1854, or to the end of your commission if it should close sooner, to return it immediately after date, under an envelope to the Secretary of the Board at Philadelphia. Your punctuality in WILLIAM RANKIN, JR. Mission House, 23 Centre street, this matter will greatly oblige us. New York. SPECIAL REPORT. For fear that some of the Special Reports for warded by mail may not reach their destinations, we publish a copy in this number of the Record, and would respectfully request the brethren who may not receive their Reports by mail, that they would be so kind as to make out their returns and forward them to us in time. We would once more earnestly request our missionaries to make their Special Report and to forward it to us in due season. Upon reflection, they cannot but perceive the great importance of this matter, and will, we trust, realize it to be a duty which they owe to themselves, the Board of Missions, and the General Assembly of the Church. We would respectfully suggest to our brethren, that the neglect of so many in time past to make their Report, has produced an unfavourable impression upon the friends of missions, and seriously impaired the moral effect of the appeals in behalf of the cause, which have been based upon our statistical tables. We would be glad, therefore, for the sake of the missionaries themselves, as well as the interests of the missionary cause, if all who have been in commission during the year would make their report. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS, Rev. and Dear Brother—The period is again approaching when we shall be called upon to render to the General Assembly a report of the operations of the Board of Missions throughout the year, and as the results of the labours of our brethren in the missionary field must, necessarily, occupy a prominent place in that report, we forward to you the annexed form of a Special Report, which contains the various items on which the General Assembly desires information. Will you be so good, therefore, as not only to give us some information on each item | Grace, Mercy, and Peace be multiplied unto you in our LORD. Sincerely and affectionately yours, G. W. MUSGRAVE, Cor. Sec. You will please not introduce into your Special Report any other business than that which properly belongs to it. Otherwise in the press of engagements in the office, it may be overlooked. And should your quarter's salary be due at the time that you are forwarding your Special Report, do not expect payment on that report; but make a separate report for the quarter, and you will not be omitted in the regular payments of the Office. SPECIAL REPORT. Months of labour performed under commission from the Board since 1st March, 1853. Number of Congregations and Missionary Stations supplied between March 1st, 1853, and March 1st, 1854. Names of do. do. do. Within the bounds of what Presbytery. Churches organized between March 1st, 1853, and March 1st, 1854, and Names of same. Houses of Worship erected or finished during the same time. Number of Families regularly attending your ministrations. March 1st, 1853, and March 1st, 1854. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. Number of Teachers in do. during the same time. State of the population, whether increasing, diminishing, or stationary. Attendance on public religious services, whether good, bad, or indifferent. Number of Baptisms between March 1st, 1853, and March 1st, 1854. Additions on Examination during same time. |