The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-26 00:00:00

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Nov. 25. Eczema.
It is asserted in diplomatic circles that in the
note despatched to the government of Electoral
Hesse this morning, Prussia reminds the Elector
of the engagement entered into by him in June last,
and points out the steps that the Prussian govern-
ment might take should the budget not be laid
before the Chamber.

PORTUGAL

fiOATTHANPTON. Nov. 25.

The Tagus, Captain Hall, from Madeira on the
13thand Lisboa on the 19th inst., arrived here this evening,
with seven passengers, 4911. in specie, 30 oxen, and 745
packages of general cargo. She spoke the English barque
Hercules off the Start, on the 24th inst.

The English corvette Perseus arrived at Madeira on the
Ilth, and sailed for the Brazils on the 13th inst.
At Madeira the weather warn fine, and the orange crop
large. There were few visitors.
The English ship Ruby, bound to Vera Cruz, had put
into Vigo, to repair the damage she bad sustained in con-
sequence of had weather.

MR. SPURGEON ON NIRACLIZ

Last night Mr. Spurgeon gave an aidiertain•
meat in the form of a MMus, illustrated by &-
solving Timm, and enlivened by the vocal stork of a
chorus of 600 children, on the sollect of the tabular of
faith in modern times. The object was to benefit
the funds of the Band of Hope Union, and it is hardly mom-
Nary to add that the mamma of that very numerous body,
the presence of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who wu the presi-
dent of the evening, Mr. Layard, ILP., who occupied
a prominent position on the platform, the opportunity of
hearing Mr. Spurgeon, combined with the various other
attracrams provided, proved sufficient to fill the Tabernacle
in every pert ; and seeing that the charge for admission
ranged from sixpence to half-a-crown, must have added as
materially to the resources of the total abstinence principle,
10 did the celebrated Gorilla lecture, which was gives in the
same place and for the same object, in October of tut year.
After a short introductory prayer from the reverend
lecturer,
of
The ORAIIMAN offered a few remarks in • the
pleasure be felt in contributing in try way he could to the
emcees of the movement is which the Band of Hope woe
°Sri. SFUMGDON then commenced his lecture, observing
that he was not about to treat of the lying miracles of Rome
or the protoeded miracles of modern impostors, but he was
about to speak of real bona fide miracles. Retortion to
Johnson—which ma held as an infsllible authority by
some people just now—be found that the meaning of
miracle was a wonder ; something that man could not do of
his own power. The miracles he had to speak
of were those which Were wrought by prayer and
faith ; miracles that mu full of philanthropy.
brimfull of ;mu and
_keodwill 'crept nun and glory to

pastor of FTo vT7Glivier at Use tatt4—i7sord—&
teenth century. Fraock habit was to durtrilinte =
s'a e 1
amongst the poorest of his dock every Thursday, although
he was extremely poor himself. While so engaged he deter-
mined to take some of the poor outcast children. and teach
them. Although he had no means he had faith, and in
that faith he payed to God. The neat was that he soon
had a school of 25 children, cod engaged a teacher at a
salary. Subsequently he thought of establialing a college
for poor students, where they should be provided with
board, lodging, and instruction. Thin ideo,.troding in God
to provide the means, he succeeded in carrying oat, and thus
he went on working until his schools multiplied from
one to 314, andlthe scholars from four, the number he began
with, to 12,000, and then to 16,000. Fraorke had none of
that quality which the world called prudence. He never
laid by money, or made provision for carrying out his
schemes of piety and benevolence. When he began to
build his university he bad no money ' • but when people
heard what he was doing they brought money to him,
which he always spent as test as it cum. On one oceasion,
when the workmen cams for their wages, he told them he
had no money, but trusted in God, and before eight a
friend came in unexpectedly, and unasked gave him enough
to meet the demand. On another occasion when he had
only • ducat he gave it to a poor woman, t danger, who
begged it of him, having nothing left to eapply the neces-
sities of his own poor ; but presently some bennoMt per-
son paid 500 ducats into hie treasury. When at
another time be was brought down to penury he prayed
the Lord to look upon his oecessities, sod going
' downstairs he found mousy enough to best half-a-
week, and before that was gone suScient came for
another half week. 000 day his steward came to him for
thirty crowns ; he had nothing to give him, but be prayed
to God, and almost immediately somebody brought him
thirty crowns. An account of this remerkable man was
published about a hundred years ago in England, and after-
wards the celebrated Mr. Huntingdon published another
edition of the work. No doubt the example of Franck+ had
much to do in forming the character of Huntingdon. Both
were remarkable for Chair faith in God's promise, that what
they asked in his name he would give. Unfortunately,
however, Huntingdon's faith was of a more selfish kind than
Franck's* for while the one prayed for bread for his poor
children, the other prayed for new clothes for himself. Yet
both had their prayers granted unto them. The next
example of miracle working by faith in modern
times, quoted by the lecturer, woe John Falk, of
Dantrdc, who was a student at the college at Hell,
who having last four of his own children one after the other,
took io and adopted four of the most destitute outcasts he
could find, whom he clothed, fed, and taught, and ulti-
mately increased the number to 300, who lived with him in
• building erected for the purpose. Falk also established
au institution in which he trained sixty masters, who,
when qualified, were sent to other places as teachers. A
third instance was that of Dr. Witham, of Hamburg, who,
is 1830, began • movement in that city for providingand
reclaiming juvenile offender.. He first succeeded in ob-
taining subscriptions and established a society, but that fell
through, and he (the rev. lecturer) was not surprised, forke
believed that a society to an earnest man was no better a
piece of utility than was Saul's armour to David. He be-
lieved that God worked by individuals, and he believed
'societies induced those who belonged to them to take
credit for all that the society did, while doing little or so-
thiog themselves. Well, the society having failed, Wichern
went to work by himself. He established a Haugh Flatus and
invited the wild outcast children—the Arabs of Hamburg
streets—to come. After a few days four came, then me
until et length he had 400 boys and 120 girls under hisarnl
his wife's care. These gradually. be reduced to obedience and
to halite of order, honesty, industry, and religion. He
never resorted to coercion, love being the guiding sod only
reds of the home. There were houses and workshop for the
boys, a house for the girls, and a chapel oo the gromod,
erected principally by the boys themselves ; and so well ware
these children trained that they could always command em-
ployment in Hamburg in preference to others. Dr. Wichern
expended now 7,000!. a-year on this establishment
though he began it with nothing. Another Instance
was the German pastor Goeseer, who, • Roman
catholic priest, but a preacher of the gospel nevertheless,
began at the age of 56 to work is the missionary cause, and
at 146, when be died, he could say, that without the aid of
missiooary societies, secretaries, collectors, or any of the
machinery of those institutions, he had done as much as
the greatest of them. And so he had, for including the
missionaries wives, he had sent out in connexion with Pres-
byterians, Baptists. and other denominations, no less than
200 missionaries, all of whom he had himself trained. He
likewise trained • number of desoonesaes, who attended the
hospitals as nurses, and laboured as scripture readers to the
poor in the street--sod all this without any other aid than
the money that came to him in answer to kis prayer,, and
WI the consequence of his faith. The seat example was
the German pastor, Harmer' who had by the same
moans accomplished similar results in sending
out missionaries. In reference to Hermes, Mr. Spurgeon
said he was an eloquent and impassioned preacher, who
walked about from side to side while preaching. He (the
lecturer) had very little opinion of those wooden boxes called
pulpits. (There is no pulpit at the Tabernacle, but • gallery
or platform railed in, of some 25 feet or more square, which
the preacher occupies while addressing his congregation,
and where be has ample room to move about.) The only
use he weld imagine for pulpits' was to remind the people
of their latter cud by keeping before their eyes the whole
time of the service a man half buried in a wooden
box. (A laugh.) He thought they must have been
invented for the benefit of some one whose legs were
deformed. (Laughter.) He believed the power of oratory
lay very much in the lap, and he liked to; we a man when
preaching walk about, as Hermes did, and roar out the
truth like a lion. The last instance of miracle working be
would quote was that of George Midler, of Bristol, who,
from squall =ell beginnings, established lint the Orphan
House at Bristol, and who since 1832 had built three
orphan houses, at a cost of between 60,0001. and 70,000 f.,
and in which were maintained 1,110 orphans, at an annual
expenditure of 8,0004 Besides this be supported, more or
lees, 100 missionaries, at the annual rust of 5.2731.,
and Lad received since 182 more than 200,0001.
in voluntary subscriptions, sent to him from all
parts of the earth. When they saw these orphan
children going through the streets of Bristol they might
ask the infidel what he made of it, when they saw the
orphan houses they might ask the sceptic what he thought
of it. The only test of anything was to put it to the proof,
and if you asked of God in prayer sod be answered that
prayer, what greater proof could they have that them was
• God These miracles he had called their attention to
proved that God was not a mere empty abstraction above
the stars, but • very God, able and willing to bless the
services of mam, and always ready to make good his promise
to man.
After the lecture, the dissolving views, illustrating the
persona and scenes the lecturer bad described, were exhi-
bited, and the proceedings terminated by a vote of thanks
to the chairman, moved by Mr. LLTARIN M.P., and se-
conded by Mr. Wm. J. Manta.