The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-12-27
DE-. VAN INaEN IN RooHEsrER.-We
copy the following notice of DR.. Van Ingen,
from the Rochester IN. W advertiser:

AosS VIZ ASO~u00SSA Ave ~ <A%Vo'eVooys
An INTERESTING OCCASION friend.
ship and intimacy of nearly seventeen years
standing between two Of the clergymen
we'll known during that period to our citi-
zens, was exempliied on Sunday last, in a
manner as refreshing as it is unusual. One
of them, an Episcopal minister, after resi-
dence in the West of seven years, returned
to our city on Friday last, and in cordial
interview on Saturday, was invited by the
other, Presbyterian pastor, to use bis
place of worship for services and sermon
on the afternoon of Sunday.
The invitation was accepted instantly in
the spirit which it had been made. The
Rev. DR.. Van 1ngen was on Sunday led up
to the pulpit of the Third Presbyterian
Church, by the Rev. DR.. Hall, at the usual
hour OF afternoon service. Hymns and
a>rsalm, selected by the former, were given
out by DR.. Hail and sung. The Episcopal
service, known as the third service, was
read, and sermon preached and the b: ne.
diction pronounced by the Rev. DR.. Van
Ingen. His text was, Corinthians q: 2 (;
I" For | determined not to know anything
among you save Jesus Christ and Him cru
Cited" The cross was preached as lst, the
only fountain and channel of pardon and
grace; I'd, the argument for entire self-con-
secratiOn the Sd, the instrument of discip.
line for repentance, for charity, and for per.
feet conformity to Christ--in word, cross
to be believed in, and a cross to be borne.
A preface introducing the sermon toucha
ingly explained and defined the spirit of the
scene. 1t was as follows:
BELOVED CHRISTIAN BRETHREN Before en-.
teriDg upon the exposition and enforcement of
the well known words of my text permit me
to address myself to those especially among
you on whom grey hairs ard sorrow have con-
ferred an insight denied to inexperience. In
the ardors of early piety the tn lights of Hea.
ven and its eternal brotherhood kindie emo
tiOns sincere indeed and animating but quite
unlike in sober realnesS those which time and
the pressure of the cross submitted to inspire.
Heaven,to such as we, seems home indeed; and
greetings by the way, when each is of the 9TH
er sure..-above all such greetings when in
Gods house, almost anticipate its blessedness
and rest. A Christian friendship of seventeen
years duration has furnished the privileged exs
perience of this hour. Agreeing with each
other in all the great principles which un-
.derlie our several views of evangelic truth
and apostolic order, and recognizing the
conscientious sincerity in the extent to which
each has been led to carry the application of
those principles in practice, we rejoice in the
friendship unbroken by even breath of dis
trust or difference : aud 4 stand before you
here this afternoon to enjoy this f0retaste of
an eternal friendship, without being asked to
sacrifice single conscientious scruple, to
compromise single principle OF my convic-
tions, or to trench upon an obligation OF my
vows. Now we see through glass darkly
soon in the effulCent radiance of the Master a