The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1864-01-21
Religious Intelligence from the Uni
ted States and Europe

The Northern Pulpit "A writer in the
Philadelphia PresJgtertQn says: Sad and
vide spread experience discioses the fact,
that sensation sermons, political sermcne,'
sermons on the war and on the crisis, and
sermons for the times are multiplying upon
as, taking the place IF sermons on tine IN
sesrchsble riches Of Christ and standing
IN the way Of Christ and Him crucifed.' "
ther writer in the same paper. in arti
ie,as.on "the kind Of preaching which is be-
coming sadly prevaleDtat The present time"
especially rebnkes sermons tainted by the
Cnrnal warfare"
Theological Education Some of the
Northern Theological Seminariee are inau-
gnrsting the custom Of employing special
lecturers. not connected with the Faculty,
on special subjects, For example, Lane
Seminary announces, f,r the present tertu,
lectures on Foreign Missions By Rev Secre-
tery Treat, Ct the American Board Of Com
misaioners for Foreign Missions
Il Sign.-Tbe Philadelphia Presbyterian
Of Jan. "a, contains toe following brief ed
itorial remarks. 1t ell shows plainly that
: the pnblio sentiment q England is well
known at the North.
SENTIMENTALITY The London Re
cord, the organ of the evangelical party in
the Church of England il It's meddling in
the affairs Of this country, ia mild and Com
placent while the rebellion and slavery par
ty are in the ascendant, but no sooner does
it hear OF tue successes Of the Government
in the prosecution of the ~ar, thar we are
treated with homily On the wickedness Of
var, and the bag barism Of the Government
which prosecuies it for the protection Of its
own lie and welfare. If anything were
marvellous in these daJs,it would be the
j sympathy with slavery among cer,ain rel-
gious prints, which. before the war; were
particularly pnagent in regard to the nor
rors of the peculiar institntiOn, and the
baseness cf The Government which could
tolerate it. They have been, and are, won
derfulIy skilled in blowing hot and cold"
REV. CHARLES BEEcHER has besr elected
to the Massachusetts Legislature. This ia
the same man who was recently throRn,
overheard by bis congregation and the E't
sex North Association. He was proved to
be deplorably uneouDd in the faith. but ia
doubtless ''souud on the goose :" and that
covers a multitude of siAs in the sight Of
Yankeedom.
Nelo Pibjications.-Among those an
bounced in Northern papers are
Il Compendioas History Of English Litcro,
t9re and Of the Engilsh Laog@oge from
The Norman Conquest. VITA Numerous
Specimens. By George L. Craik, LID,
Professor of History and of English
Literature in Qleep's College, Belfast.
In two volumes. New York 1864, Chas.
Scribner. Svo, PIP. go ond ISL.
This isspoken of as a york of great value.
Il History Of Cdristian Doctrine. By Wm'
G. 4. Shedd, D d. In two volumes
New York, 1864, Chaa. Scribner. 0go
PIP. 408 and 500.
Dr. ID is one of the abest writer's in
tho Nc nern Presbyterian Church, and as
ne is an accomplished scholar and Gas de-
voted much study to this department, bis
work may justly claim high merit. The
work of Hagenboch though valuable, has
left great room for Improvement.
Il Gall The New York .Jouraalof Com
mercc Gays thss the Rev. De-. MeCintock,
now in the American Church at Paris. is
about to return to New York, and adds,
that 81. Paul's Church has rendered him
a call, which it is supposed he will accept"
Il Rclic--A Glasgow paper announces
"lor sale, by private bargain, the wonder.
fal organ of james Watt, the illustrions in
ventor OF steam, made by lis own hands,
for his own amusement, is the city Of elias
gov, nearly one hundred years ago."
Accepted.-The Rev Albert Barnes has
re. considered his refusal of seat in the
Prudential Committee Of the American
Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions, to which be was elected at the An
nual meeting in October, and has concluded
to accept the position.
Liberia College Professor Freeman,
for twelve years an officer Of Avery Col
lege, Allegheny, and for eight years at its
head, has been appointed Professor Of
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in
Liberia College, Africa.
The u. s. Government and tile Indian
Tribes.-The ~ Y Observer states that the
hostility Of the IndiOps to the United States
is increasing rapidly.
zone act of the government, forbidding
wars among themselves, was regarded as
tyrannical. And when in 1861 our country
was plunged into an awful civil war, the In
dams said, Our great Father has always
told us it was wrong to make var, yet now
he himself is making war and killing great
many. VIII you explain this 7 We don't un
derstaud it, This vas home thrust, and
it was hard to make savage understand |
the distinction between the right of a white
and red man to go to war.
But the hostility arising from these causes
was trivial in comparison with that which
arose out of the sale of their lands, and the
treaties connected with them. The treaties
are born in fraud, and all their stipulations
for the future are curtailed by iniquity.
We repeat, what we have said so many
times within the last forty years, that these
Indian wrongs are crying to heaven against
US. And it is cause of profound astonsh
ment, as well as heartfelt grief, that one
IL Ia.