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A word in conclusion as to the College. The

A word in conclusion as to the College. The
Board of Trustees spent two days in labori-
Gus and careful examination of its interests.
The result is very encouraging. The scheme
for the endowment is progressing very favora-
bly,; commodious and beautiful chapel will
soon be completed; measures were taken to
erect such house as the public know the Presl-
dent ought to have; boarding house also will
be erected, to furnish at cheaper rate accom-
dalton to the many who need it; andmany I'M
provements in regard to the equipment OF the
College with apparatus were ordered.
Four hundred students were in attendance
the past year; not less than five hundred may
be reasonably expected during the next.
Washington College presents rare corps OF
teachers, both in number and ability, and a
President whose influence for good, whether In
regard to the moral or literary character of the
institution, leaves nothing more to wish for; a
noble-hearted Christian gentleman, whose SUI
preme desire seems to be, first to do his whole
duty, and his second to have as little notice
taken of it as possible.
Of the admirable performances of the Rich
mond Band we need not speak, since every
body else did; nor of the proceedings at the
supper of the Alumni, inasmuch as we were
not present upon that occasion.
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OUR NEW BOOK OF CHURCH
ORDER.

We understand that not little uneasiness
exists in some minds from the apprehension
that our New Book of Church Order teaches
the theory of the General Assembly, on which
the Northern Assembly acted in st. Louis and
Cincinnati This apprehension is based on
the doctrine taught in it, that the Assembly is
the Presbytery of the whole Church, possess
ing the same inherent rights and powers that
reside in any other Presbytery; Chapter 5, Sec
ton 2, Par. 3 of Form of Government; and also
the statement in Chapter s, Section 3, of Can
ons of Discipline, that in all ordinary cases,
process against gospel minister shall be en-
tered before the Presbytery of which he is a
member, which seems to imply, that in ex-
traordinary cases it may be entered before 9TH
er courts, even the Assembly We will not
now discuss the question whether these sec
tons fairly bear this Interpretation, but can
only say, that we do not think the Committee,
or the Memphis Assembly intended to endorse
the monstrous assumption of power made by
the Northern Assembly, even in its mildest
form. And we are very sure that if the Church
generally understands this as the teaching of
the New Book, it will reject it in the most
emphatic form, and prefer to give up all the
improvements contained in it, to the sane
tioning of doctrine against which it has felt
so strong an antipathy, in its illustration by
the Northern Assembly 1t is plain that this
language ought to be so altered as to prevent
any such construction from being put upon it.
And in view of the changes that are made in
the New Book, we think it extremely probable
that the next Assembly will be wholly UMPIRE
pared to act upon it finally. Indeed, we
are disposed to think, that when the Church
generally understands the real nature of all the
changes proposed, it will demand more time
for their consideration, aud if compelled tc
adopt or reject each part of the work as 8
whole, it will prefer to reject it all, rather
than introduce into our system any principle
which we might find to be a Trojan horse IL
the contests of the future. Those then who
fear that they may be trapped next fall into
the embrace of Church which claims the
powers exercised By the NortheSn- Assembly
&mayyer nsfTi1,s-at rest, for we feel very
sure that the Southern Presbyterian Church
will never consent to adopt any such theory
and practice of the powers of the Assembly
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The Rev. E. B. Inslee.

At noon, on the 18th inst, the Rey. Mr.
and Mrs. Inslee, with their four children, sailec
from New York in the steamship Rising Star
for the 1sthmus of Panama, San Francisco
and Yokohama. Should their voyage be pros
porous, the time occupied in reaching Shanghai
will be seven or eight weeks. Mr.. Inslee ad.
dress for some months will be-: "Rev. e. B.
Inslee, care of Rev. Mr.. Farnham Shanghai,
China" As we have before stated, he will
probably select Hangehou, an inland city about
one hundred miles from Shanghai, as his field
of labor.
We had the satisfaction of seeing that Bro.
Inslee and his family were provided with what
ever was necessary to render their long voyage
comfortable, and that they were all in excellent
health at the time of sailing. We observed
that several of the Japanese Commissioners to
the United States government were on board
the vessel, returning to their homes. This
seemed to us an interesting circumstance, taken
in connexion with the fact that Mr.. Inslee was
ALMOST, if not quite, the first to direct the at
tention Of the japanese generally to Western
arts and sciences, by the religious and scientific
periodical which he published a number of
years ago in China, and which was eagerly
sought after in Japan
We are sure that all our people will unite in
prayer to God that our brothers voyage may
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n. Since dead.


United Presbyterian Church, Richmond
From the Christian Observer we learn that
Rev. DR.. Read on the first Sabbath of his re.
turn from his recent mission to the South and
West, to obtain aid in rebuilding their house
of worship, gave his people an interesting
statement of his labors and success;
{" In company with DR., Stiles he left this
city about the first of February. They visited
the cities of Augusta, Macon and Columbus,
Georgia, Montgomery and Mobile, Ala, New
Orleans, La, Galveston and Houston, Texas
Then returning, they visited Memphis and st.
Louis. Here DR.. Stiles remained to fulfil his
mission as Evangelist in the Synod of Missouri.
DR.. Read returned by way Of Nashville and
Louisville.
He spoke with great pleasure of the kind
and cordial reception everywhere extended to
him, even in places where he had no acouain-
lance. He told of one man who met him with
the remark, ] knew you would call on me,
sir should have felt disappointed if You had
not come but you will be disappointed that
you have come. Lam one Of those whose duty
it is las you told u.s. to say no, for L have not
a dollar to call my own" And the aged man
fell on his neck and Yept because he was de-
barred of the privilege Of giping In Mem
phis they were privileged to take part in the
services held during an interesting revival in
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held by some that the ordination is only by the
ministers. Here it is distinctly held forth as
the act Of. all the Presbytery, both pastors and
elders Nor is the elders right TO lay on the
hands denied but asserted, only it is not held
to be necessary for him to practise the right.
Had it been denied in Gillespie's day, as in
ours, we trow he and his colleagues would
have insisted upon it as earnestly as we do
now.
Finally, Gillespie teaches that the Office Of
ruling elder ought to be for his life no less
than the pastors" Up. 6S)
All these views of Gillespie agree with those
of the great Presbyterian authorities, Ruther
ford and Henderson, his colleagues in the West
minister Assembly.
Touching the matter of imposition of hands
upon ruling elders, the doctrine Of the Church
of Scotland therefore from 1880 EDWARDS, as
seen in the second book, and in all the above
named authorities, is scriptural, but her prac-
tice varied. Ordination was to be with fast
ing, earnest prayer, and the laying on of hands
of the eldership," and the eldership or Pres
bytery to consist of Pastors, Doctors, and
such as we commonly call Elders that labor
not in the word and doctrine" And yet prac-
tically they did not ordain elders with imposi-
ton of hands, But it is not difficult to explain
this discrepancy 1t is always difficult to
change the practice of people The Church
of Scotland began in 1860 by Directing to i'm
position in all ordinations alike, as being popish
Afterwards in 1880 they changed their doctrine
and conformed it to the Scripture, but they
could not get the practice changed conforma-
bly,. Calderwood declares in his Altare Dd-
nascenun,, Up. $50, and he lived from 1875
to 1850, that "many ministers amongst us are
held to be lawful ministers who yet have never
received imposition of hands" IF it was not
easy to get all ministerial ordinations conform
ed to the right doctrine, what wonder that El-
ders ordination could not be conformed to it?
And if the evil could not be corrected at that
early day, how much more difficult to correct
it, the longer the erroneous and unscriptural
practice prevailed j. B: A.
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Movement in the Synod of Kentucky.

Movement in the Synod of Kentucky
From the Free Christian Commonwealth Of
the Goth inst, We gather some particulars Oh
much interest On the 18th of this month the
| Presbytery of Louisville assembled in that
city, at which time from thirty to forty minis
| tiers and elders, from four different Presbyte-
ries met, "as by sort of spontaneous i'm
pulse. After the business of the Presbytery
was finished, meeting for consultation was
held in the Lecture-room. There was perfect
unanimity in rejecting the softly uttered in
suits of the Assembly" "And equally unani-
nous was the Judgment that an immediate
settlement of this question is absolutely essen
tial to the peace and welfare of the churches
in Kentucky. Hardly less unanimous was the
opinion that such settlement can be reached
most satisfactorily by the call of Synod to
take official action, rather than by this call of
Convention to do more talking"
A special meeting of the Synod has been
called in Lexington on the Goth inst. 1t is
stated that the opinion of the meeting was
nearly unanimous [" doubts being expressed
by only two persons) as to the course which
ought to be pursued. The result of the whole
as stated by the f. c. Commonwealth in very
able editorial article of nearly three columns is
this; at is manifest, therefore, that the So
Der second thought Of the Kentucky churches
is settling down to the conviction that we
should take immediate measures to form ALI
ances with the Southern churches, as the first
step towards union of conservative men in
all parts of the country with the Southern
churches in establishing the true Old School
General Assembly in the United States"
We hope to hear by next week the result of
this important Synod in Lexington. Our
brethren in Kentucky have nobly battled for
great principles They have been finally cast
off by church which has betrayed the truth
and should their deliberations in the Synod
lead to the conclusion that they can comforta-
bly, unite with US, we know they will be well
coined in way to make them feel at once that
they are not strangers, but one with US both in
the conflict and in the ultimate triumph of
this great controversy.
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No Central Presbyterian for July lOth.
1t is known to the patrons Of this paper, that
after the burning of this office in April, 1865,
its publication was not resumed until the 10th
of July of that year. From the loss of books,
and the impose aity of arranging the old ac-
counts, it was proposed "to blot out the debts
on both sides, though the Editor was the loser
by the operation" All the subscribers then
on the books, consequently commenced their
year on the 10Th of July. Fifty-two pa.
pers are considered year, by all weekly
journals In the t,oo years since we com
menced, instead of l04 papers, los would be
necessary to bring our volume to close, neal
the Goth of July, and thus preserve the ar
rangement of our books. Several of our Re
ligious papers in the city, omitted a paper du
ring the week of Christmas. The employees
in the office of the Central Presbyterian pre-
ferred week IS rest in the midsummer.
There will be no paper issued on the 10th o
July, and the one of the week following, thu
18th, will close this volume. We hope tbi
suspension will not be serious Inconvenience
to our correspondents, or readers, as it come
at season, when there are no meetings Of ou
Church Judicatories, and when many Of ou
families are absent from their homes.
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Pardon for Omissions Samuel > Ohm
son, in writing to his mother, says; GU
have been the best mother, and l believe the
best woman in the world. I thank you Tor
your indulgence to me, and | beg forgiveness
of all [ have done i'll, and all that have on'at-
ted 10 do aoeU"
So in the prayer he composed at the same
time Forgive me whatever l have done
unkindly to my mother, and aohateuer 1 haze
omitted to do kindly"
There is deep meaning in this. Our Of
fences against God and our fellow-men are far
greater in the omission of duties than In the
commission of sins. Let any one think it over
faithfully, and see if the weight of condemna-
ton does nat res there.
And how much point in the expression
"omitted to do kindly" We might-often at
least-almost as well not speak the truth at ALL
as to speak it not sin love-" so it may often
happen that an act in itself eminently proper
has dreadful omission about it, simply be-
cause it is not done kindly. What is charity
however bountifuly bestowed, If sympathy be
wanting? 1t is often positive insult.
Without pursuing the hint farther, let each
one search for the catalogue of what he has lett
undone, and strive for better spirit, and
better life
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Grants from the Committee of Publica

tion.-Applications for aid from this Commit
tee are frequently sent through this Office
That our friends may not be disappointed, we
inform them, that the Secretary has deter
mined that no application aoiU be granted in
future unless sent direct to the Committee. -
This is very proper rule, since it is just as
easy to send there at once, and moreover the
application must be filed by the Secretary
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Change of Name.-At the LAST meetinr o

Change of Name.-At the last meeting of
the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch
Church, the vote was almost unanimous in fa-
yor of dropping the word dutch" from their
name. The question goes down to the Glasses,
Tor Presbyteries) and if confirmed there, the
denomination will henceforth be known as 'fthe
Reformed Church of America.
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Ten Dollars Wanted.-Who will

XVI O0hf'l1S w "IKVou W HV VIII SIVe US IHIs
sum for a little church in E. Hanover Presbyte-
ry? Rev. +. M. Woods, student of Union
Theological Seminary, is laboring at Yellow
Chapel, Stafford county, and finds the little
flock poor in this worlds goods, but rich in
faith. They need Sabbath School books, and
Hymn books for their church service. A gift
of ten dollars will enable us to supply them
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the Rev. Mr.. Witherspoon's church, and in
Nashville to rejoice with that people over the
goodness of God. The total amount OF the
contribution forwarded to was
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The Peabody Fund "A correspondent has
asked US to publish the address of the General
Agent of the Peabody Educational Fund.
We believe it is Rev. Dr. B. Sears, Provi-
dence, Rhode Island
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THE LITTLE CLEANER. "A Monthly Jour
nal for Southern Boys and Girls: edited
by Olive o. Lee. Fredericksburg, Virginia.
1.-THE Little Cleaner will comprise va
rety of ARCHAEOLOGICAL and selected-suited
to the capacities of children of every age, and
acceptable to every Southern Christian Par
ent
Terms-One dollar in advance, with dis
count of twenty per cent. to clubs Of twenty OF
more, and handsome premium for the largest
Club.
Subscription lists are open at j. w. Tur.
ner's, News Depot, No. 20, Thirteenth street,
Richmond Messrs Curtis & Fontaine, Fred.
ericksburg, Virginia.
All communications should be directed tc
the "Editress of the Little Cleaner, Freder
icksburg, Va.
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West Hanover Presbytery.

1t is due to the Stated Clerk, Rev. DR.. Ar
instead, to say that the report of its proceed
ings were sent to this Office early in May, but
as two articles had appeared in subsequent
papers, embracing most of the items of bust
ness, the MS. was inadvertently laid aside
Attention has been called to it, and we now
give, with apologies for the delay, such other
matters as will be Of interest specially to the
churches in that Presbytery, 800
The churches of the Presbytery were d.
rected to send up statistical reports to Presby-
terry from April, 1866, to August, 1867, and
thereafter at every fall meeting OF Presbytery
Orange Courthouse was selected as the place
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be prosperous, and that he may be made emf
nently useful in extending the kingdom Of
heaven in the vast empire of China.-Southe
PreSbuterjan
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s@- TIE arrearages due the Central
Presbyterian are so large, that the 6uss-
ness Of the office as mach depressed be-
cause Of them.
If each delinquent subscriber under
whose eye this statement passes would
attend to the matter at once, the good
and graceful act would leave nobody hart.
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CATALOGUE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
CARoLINA-Faculg-Hon David L. Swain,
IL. D., President; Rev. James Phillips, s.
7. D., Professor of Mixed Mathematics X
Manuel Fetter, A. NJ, Professor of the Greek
Language and Literature; Hon. William e..
Battle, LII. D., Professor of Law; Rev. For
dyce NJ. Hubbard, S. T. D., Professor of the
Latin Language and Literature Rev. Charles
Phillips, A. NJ, Professor of Pure Mathemat-
ics Hildreth II. Smith, A. NJ, Professor of
Modern Languages; William j. Martin, A.
NJ, Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and
Geology; Rev. Andrew D. Hepburn, A. NJ,
Professor of Metaphysics, Logic and Rhetoric
Total number of students, 1913.
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THE LAND We LOVE, for July, 1867, has
the following table of contents:
|. Sketch of Gen. T. R. r. Cobb, by Rev.
r. X. Porter, Atlanta, GA. 2. The Flight Of
Arethusa, by Mrs. M. ]. Preston, Lexington,
Va. g. John Milton, by Prof r. l.. Dabney,
of Virginia. 4. Dramatic Sketch, by 7. ID.
Hayne, Augusta, GA. 5. Evenings in Parlia.
ment, by j. r. Thompson, Esq, Richmond,
Va. 6. The Madonna, by Mrs. F. Downing,
Charlotte, N. G. 7. Mary Ashburton, =
Skipton, Maryland. s. Callista, by N. G.
Kouns, Fulton, Mo. 9. Humors Of the Nor.
gan Raid by ]. P. STEELE, Caseyville, KY,
TO- Tell Me Ye Winds, by Miss A. A. Hill,
New Orleans, La. IL. Perfect through Suffer
ing, by Mrs. F. Downing, of Charlotte, N. G.
~. Richmond, Va, Fifty Years Ago, by a
Virginia Matron. 13 United States District
Court, Poem, by j. r. Thompson, Esq. a.
The Haversack. 15 Peach Culture, by Hon.
II. w. Ravenel, Aiken, S. c. Is. New York
Correspondence. It, Editorial.
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New Books, by Presbyterian Board, Phil
adelphia Series for Youth.
THE LITTLE NORWEGIAN and The YOUNG
WooD-CUTTER. By the author of Annie
Lorimer
THE LITTLE PRIEST. BY Rev. W. P.
Breed, D. D., author of Lessons in Fly
ing"
THE MARTYRS DAUGHTER AND OTHER
TALES. Compiled for the Board Of Pnbllca-
ton by Marian Butler.
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"REMINISCENCES OF CHARLESTON, S. G. ByJ.
N. Cardozo. Charleston Joseph Walker, l29
Meeting street. 1866.
We have received the above from Messrs.
Randolph & English. Price, SO cents.
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CATALOGUE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIR-
GINIA-Faculy, Officers and Instructors. IS.
Maupin, Chairman of the Faculty. Academic
Department: William E. Peters, A. NJ, Pro-
fessor of Latin; Basil L. Gildersleeve, PHI.
D., Professor of Greek; NJ Schele De We're,
LII. D., Professor of Modern Languages
Charles E. Venable, A. NJ, Professor of Math-
ematics; Francis Fl. Smith, A. NJ, Professor
of Natural Philosophy; S. Maupin, A. NJ,
Professor of Chemistry; VIM. Fl. McGufey,
D. D., LII. D., Professor of Moral Philoso.
ply; Geo. Frederick Holmes, LII. D., Profess
sor of History and Literature. Medical De.
partment: Henry Howard, NJ. D., Professor
of Medicine; James L. Cabell, NJ. D., Pro.
fessor Of Physiology and Surgery; John Stage
Davis, NJ. D., Professor of Anatomy and
Materia Medica; S. Maupin, NJ D., Professor
of Chemistry and Pharmacy; J. Edgar Chan,
-, sil '5J..strator of -.
Law Department John B. Minor, LID.
Professor of Common and Statute Law
Stephen O. Southall, Professor of Civil, Con,
stitutional and international Law and Equity
Vim. Wertenbaker, Librarian and Secretary tc
the Faculty; John E. johnson, Proctor and
Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings
Rev. J. S. Lindsay, Chaplain.
The students in all the departments number
400. The faculty will proceed on the 30th Of
this month to make appointments of State stu.
dents for the vacant districts.
Privileged Students ministers of the Cos.
pei may attend any of the schools of the Uni
versity, without the payment of fees to the
Professors. The same privilege will be extend
ed to any young man preparing for the minis
try, on the following conditions:
~ He shall submit for the consideration of
the Faculty an application accompanied by tes-
timonials relating to the fact of his being a
bona tide candidate for the ministry, to his
good standing in the Church of which he is a
member, to his intellectual capacity, and his
inability to meet the expenses of education at
the University, without aid
(2.) No Professor shall be required to form
new Glass; assume any other additional la,
dents.
(3.) In order to entitle such a student to the
privilege of gratuitous instruction in any school
of the University during second session, he
he must prove his ability to profit by such con-
tinued instruction, by exhibiting such evidence
of proficiency during the first session as shall
be satisfactory to the Professor of the school.
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geligiums Smtelligeute.
FROM THE SOUTHERN STATE
Rappahannock Presbytery.

The Presbytery Of Rappahannock met puIsu-
ant to adjournment at the Presbyterian church
at Warrenton, Va, on Thursday, June 9Th,
1867, at u o'clock P. NJ, and was opened, by
request, with a sermon from Rev. A. ID. Pol
lock, from Habakkuk iii 2.
The sessions of Presbytery were then consti-
tuted with prayer by the last Moderator, Rev.
John w. Pugh.
Rev. Edward Ell. Cumpston was elected Mod
orator, and William w. Williamson, ruling
elder Of Warrenton church, was elected tenn
porary Clerk.
Rev. Robert T. Berry. of Winchester Pres
bytery, and Rev. Mr.. Henry, of the Episcopal
Methodist Church were invited to seats as cor
responding members.
Rev. R. L. McMurran and Rev. j. w. Lup-
ton were received as members of this Presby-
terry upon certificates of dismision from Win
chester Presbytery.
A call for the pastoral services of Rev. j. w.
Lupton was presented from the Leesburg and
Catoctin churches, and being found in order,
was placed in the hands of the pastor elect,
who signifying to Presbytery his acceptance
thereof, on motion Presbytery resolved to pro,
coed to install the Rev. Jonah w. Lupton as
pastor of the Leesburg and Cactoctin churche0
on Thursday, the 18th day of October n
at Leesburg, at II o'claok w Rha