Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-13

yates, fifty years ago, hardly had
so good an education as was now
required of the incoming Freshman
class. The number of protesting
Christians in college is greater now
than ever, while the number of
those fitting for the ministry is
smaller.
DR.. Trumbull, the oldest Protest
! ant Missionary in Chill, gives an
account Of missionary efforts there.
The American and Foreign Chris
tan Union has four missionaries
Messrs. Trumbull. Gilbert, Sayre
and Merwin. Besides these there
are an Episcopal clergyman, one
German Lutheran, and missionary
supported by DIR. Trumbull's church
in Valparaiso. Add to these three
colporteurs and cateehists, two
secular schools and eight Sabbath
schools, and this gives the sum Of
Christian activity here put forth.
Copies of the long expected fac
smile edition of the Vatican New
Testament in Greek have been re-
ceived in London. The entire work
will consist of six volumes, five of
which contain the texts of the Old
and New Testaments, and the other,
critical notes and fac-similies. The |
book is large folio, with three col |
umns on each page, answering to |
those of the original manuscript, !
line for line and letter for letter. |
The work appears under the auspi-
ces Of the Pope and is edited by |
Fathers Fercellone and Cozza The
editors promise the remaining vol
umes at intervals of ten months;
nd the missing portion of the Vat
lean manuscript is supplied in or
binary type from another manu-
script.
DIR ]. &. Holland, writing from
Switzerland to the Springfield |
(Mass.) Republican, contrasts re-
hgion at home and abroad as fol-
lows: 1t seems to me that any
New England man coming to Eu-
rope must feel everywhere around
him an enormous letting down of
the moral tension and tone to which
he has been accustomed. He sees
everywhere the Sabbath desecrated, |
Here, in Switzerland, the business
day of the steamboats, and railroads
is Sunday; and l cannot help con-
trasting the unbroken stiffness that
hangs around the station at Spring
field, during all the long Sabbath
days of summer, with the hurry,
and hustle, and rush Of locomotives
and of men, which prevail every
Sunday at the station in Lausanne,
within sight and hearing of my win
low. Meeting q distinguished d.
vine here, one expects to see a man
n some respects like those one meet
1t home holding like positions; but
me ssoon undeceived. Christianity
ioes not seem to get hold of people
here as it does at home. The lack
If earnestness, genuine faith, abso-
ute self-devotion, is painfully appa-
'ent Christianity would seem to
De adopted by these men as beau
iful system of philosophy and
,thics and, in the meantime. they
to have a pretty good time.
they drink their wine, visit their
citations, go to the shows, and for
ret that there is q world to be con-
,erted. There may be something
ad and severe in the type of New
England religion, but it means
There is a life-revolu-
ionizing and Recommending pow
II in it. 1t is a power of such mag
litude that a man needs to get four
thousand miles away from it to
MEASURE its dimensions. Here /
an see, as L never saw before, the
Intensity of religious feelings that
revailsin America; and my respect
Or it grows with every renewal Of
he contemplation. 1t is a thing
pparsntly unknown here, and alto
,ether unappreciated as. it exists
mOno US.