Worcester daily spy., 1858-07-31

sIoNs.-I am free to think that there is not
maII in this congregation, who has not been
under such impressions. Some men are sub
ject to them more than Others but all men
are subject to them in some degree, aud at
various times in their life. Great pyramidi-
cal men, who have been built up from a
broad base to a narrow apex, in worldly pros
perity, and who stand, like the old Egyptian
pyramids that are overlaid with sand, half
covered up with their wealth such men, in
their immovsbleness, look down upon the
melting and awakening of men, and upon
their fugitive, imaginative impressions, and
sneer at them as unmanly. 1t may be un-
manly to be all the time wavering, to be the
subject of constant vacillations, but it is a
great deal more unmanly to stand like great
rude stone, and never have any feeling al all.
All those feelings that constitute a mans
moral nature-his worshiping element; or, l
should rather say, the yearnings for the spiri-
tual, or for something to worship; the rever-
ental element in the human soul; all these
feelings are subject at times in every mans
life, to special nhuence-inhuence which he
can trace in many cases, and say, " 1t springs
from such and such a cause"-and influences
which spring upon him from sources which
he cannot trace, but which yet have a cause,
and doubtless could be traced if one had a
comprehensive eye. Nevertheless, in one
way or another, these feelings have been ex.
cited and touched within us, from childhood.
There is not man in this congregation that
has not felt a certain want in himself of this
very element, certain relToach to himself
because he was so deficient a certain move
ment and tendency in the direction of this
feelng-a tendency which would consum-
mate Itself and bring him into the presence of
God, if he did not set his heart against 1t,
and give way to the various interests which
hold him down and check his aspirations.
II you look comprehensively. it may be
said that the human soul lies in the body
like the keys OF great organ, and that the
great Organist has not left single KEY un-
touched in the whole seven octaves touched
not once, or twice, but many times; not in
single melodies, but in the most massive har.
monies; so that every person trained in a
Christian family, brought up under Christian
institutions, In Christian communities, in the
midst OF Christian visitations has been the
subject of special influences on every single
one OF his faculties, from the top of the scale
all the way down to the bottom give yon
no exaggerated impression, The fault of my
statement on this point is that It is too gene
raj, and not enough specific The truth is
SANNt NNol hIOlC tuhil Cdl make IL appear TO
oe.-Ertract from Henry Ward Beechers Ser
mon.
CONGREGATIONAL STATISTICS OF OH1o-
The State Conference embraces eight local
conferences, and one hundred and eleven
churches, nineteen of which are not associ.
ated; eighty ministers, of whom twenty-five
are pastors; fifty seven stated supplies and
six thousand, nine hundred and seventy-fve
church members. Additions during the year
ending December 3lst, seven hundred and
ninety-one, which does not include the re-
suits of the revival. The total amount of
funds raised during the year for parish and
benevolent purposes, is $92, 40S. There are
twenty Welsh Congregational churches in the
state, which are not associated.
The BIBLE IN RUssIA.-Speaking of Rus
sia, we are reminded of statement we have
seen to the effect that the present Emperor
has not only reconstructed the Russian Bible
Society, which was suspended under Nicho.
las, but that he has made donation of 25,-
900 roubles, (f4,000) and has promised an
annual subscription of 10000 roubles CGI,-
3O0) The consequence of this patronage is
extraordinary activity, and a new edition
of thirty thousand New Testaments in Fin
nish and Estbonian, has Just been printed.
while religious tracts and books are circulat.
ed in immense numbers. We hope this fact
will satisfy those who wish to know how far
the circulation of the Holy Scriptures in the
vulgar tongues is permissible under the Rus.
sian rule. 1t is not Bibles alone which the
subjects of this great empire seek after. We
observe that in Finland there are now pub
lished eighteen newspapers, ten of which are
Finnish and Swedish not one appears there
in Russian CLERICAL Times.
WELSH BAPTIsTs. s.-Twelve hundred Welsh
Baptists recently left New York on their way
to settle upon large body of land near Knox
vile, Tennessee, purchased for them by
agents previously sent over. Several entire
churches came, and three of their pastors.
These preachers, says the independents are
educated men, and able to preach in the Eng
lish as well as the Welsh, but most of the
colony speak and read only Welsh.
ECoLEsIAsTIcAL PENALTY.-A letter from
Laybach, in Illyria, says: ga case of ecclesi-
astical decision has just occurred here which
reminds one of the darkest ignorance of the
middle ages. Some wax tapers having been
stolen from the Franciscan church, a watch
was set and young woman was discovered
to be the thief. By order of the ecclesiastical
authorities she was exposed at the principal
entrance of the church, fastened to the wall
by large chain, and some of the stolen prop
erty was suspended above her. A crowd as
sembled, hooting and insulting her. At
length, after the lapse of an hour, the police
put an end to the disgraceful scene by carry
ing the woman off to prison.