The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-01-27
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.

Spring. of New York, has been pastor of the
Brick Presbyterian church in that city for the
space of ffty-nine years. There are but three
people living TO his knowledge, who were
members of the congregation when he became
pastor.
The Rev. j. N. G. Grier, D. D., has been
pastor of the church at Brandywine Manor,
Chester county, Pa, for fifty three years. His
father, the Rev. Nathan Grier, was pastor of
the same church for the space Of twenty-seven
years, aud the combined pastorates of father
and son in the same congregation have ex-
tended over eighty years, fact, 80 far as We
know. quite without parallel. DIR. Grler still
breaches in the church. but has presented his
resignation, which the congregation are very
reluctant to accept.-Presbyterian.
A New Mission. The Board of Domestic Mis-.
sions of D. S. Church has established a Mis-
sion in the Territory Of Arizona. The Rev.
MIR. Skinner, formerly Of California, has been
appointed missionary, and has gone to his dis
tant field Through the generous contribu-
tons of the Board Of Publication, and Of Ro-
bert Carter 4 Brothers, ne was well provided
with books and tracts suitable to his work.
seminaries.-The Directors of the U. p.
Theological Seminary in Allegheny have
adopted a .ystem of Lectures on Pastoral The
ology, which might be worthy of consideration
| by the authorities of other Seminaries. Pas.
tors of experience and known ability, have
| been selected, each one Of whom is to deliver
a lecture on some particular department OF
Pastoral Theology. We observe that on March
Tine Manner of Conducting Revival"
Princeton seminary.-The Annual Catalogue
of Princeton Theological Seminary has just
been issued. The number of Professors is
five, the same as last year. The number of
students is l07.
The Panoplist which was recently revived in
Boston as the monthly organ of old fashioned
Congregationalist orthodoxy, is again no more.
In its parting words it says:
$50 great has been the revolution of opinion
in matters of theology AMI morals within the
last few decades, that those who attempt to
revive the Puritan faith and practice. have
and apathy on this subject which is equally
surprising aud diScouraging"
OF the Home Missions of the New School
Presbyterian Church Dr. Kendall says:-
Since the lst Of May last, we have commits
stoned 100 new missionaries, in addition to
the $50 we had the previous year. The Church
Erection Committee have aided to build 81
houses of worship during that time"
New Year.-Enough of the New Year has
ready gone to make retrospect possible, and
| to give pertinence to the question: how we have
begun it. Have three weeks, the seventeenth
part of the whole new year flown by. without
our commencing in earnest to make right use
of gift so gracious, so valuable, and so wei.
come? Oh! procrastinator. let the thought
Of the unimproved three weeks already gone,
startle you into quick remembrance of the
good resolutions yet unperformed, with which
you met the New Year. 1t is not too late to
put them in practice Make your heart even
yet New Years gift to the infinitely long,
suffering God.-American Presbyterian.
Giving up the Field.-The Unitarians are
gradually giving up their hopes of success as to
| a church in the South and retreatng TO their
| Baltimore. who writes with great candour and
geniality, says in a communication to the
| Christian Register of last week:
Il cannot help smiling sometimes at the
enthusiastic way in which we were told that
| the South was waiting for our ideas that we
had only to 90 with them; nor can [ recall the
language by which was lured hither without
somewhat Of amazement. 1t never was harder
| to make Unitarianism welcome at the South
than it is 10 day."
The difficulty, he further says. in taking
| Unitarianism South is, ''the settled purpose"
as he describes it, of the Southern people, Ito
accept nothing but what has always been &C.
cepted, and bears the stamp approved" We
think this is the most complimentary thing
we have lately seen Of the Southern people
To hold fast to ideas" which have been ''ac.
cepted" and approved" and to resist antag-
onistic ideas may be the fruit of positive
well anchored faith, which having reached a
secure place, needs no longer to cast about for
other foundations IfUnitarian ideas" mean
the principle tiled by the late Conference
at New York, Riast which the best men of
the body pro- lea, then We hope the South
will never give lace to them, and that it will
continue to be AL impervious to them to the
end as it is now Presbyterian.
work.-A writer in tie american Ptesby.
terrain says that on a recent Sabbath morning
he received "ten different notices, printed and
written to be read from his pulpit almost all
of them calling his people away from their
own home field, and proposing to use them
| elsewhere Any minister who allows the
energies of his people to be diffused by en-
couraging them to attend to all sorts of calls
upon time and sympathy and money, wastes
for Christ by concentration OF effort than by
such extension as must Of necessity lead to
superficial results.
Rev. Mr. Francis, at one time a missionary
and colporteur in this city Richmond now
OF California, has recently visited Salt Lake
City and preached, by Brigham Youngs invi-
tation, in the new tabernacle Mr.. Francis
writes to the Home Mission Society. that he
has had on interview with the authorities and
with the United States Land Agent, to secure
lot for Baptist church edifce -Religioy
HERALD
Mr.. G. H. Stuart and the Reformed Presbyteri-
ans.-A but two of the eight Reformed Pres
byterian churches in the Pittsburg Presbytery
have withdrawn form the Synod until it shall
rescnd its action in suspending Mr.. 6. H. Stu
art.
Bishop McIlvaine, of the Episcopal Diocese
of Ohio, in answer to the letter Of member
of that body. as to the duty of boring when
the name of the Saviour occurs in the creed,
says it is not required in the formuaries of the
Church, and is no test Of Guardianship. but
a step in the direction of ritualistic and super.
stitious usages that no rector has right to
exact of his congregation.
Another Innovation in the Jewish custom of
worship has been introduced in the grand syn
agogue on Fifth avenue, New York. Instead
of the separation of the sexes in different parts
Of the building, the men with their hats on oc.
cupying the body OF the church. and the wo-
men the galleries, the families sit together,
and the men worship with uncovered heads.
The Second Presbyterian church of Philadel-
phia, (Dr Beade's,) will build on the corner
of 2lst and Walnut streets, where they have q
chapel.