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The Unsung Lady Franklins.

An exchange protests against the assumption
that Lady Jane Franklin was exceptional in her
virtues as a wife, and handsomely says:
Lady Franklin is to be honored and praised
for her virtues, but they we're the virtues of her
ennobling manifestations which these virtues as.
sumed. but the accidental form Of the manifesto.
tions is no just ground for making this applause
unlimited The highest praise which can be be-
slowed upon her is TO say that she was one OF the
immense class of faithful wives and good women.
This class is literally immense it contains nearly
all the women whom any of US know. IL is the
bad women who are exceptional; it is the unfaith.
full wives who are rare and when one proceeds to
examine the class In detail. Lidy Frsnklins are
discovered just real, just as heroic, far more to
the venerable lady who has just died amid the
signs and honors of the world. -"
1t requires less strength of character to bear up
against one great sorrow than it does to endure
lifetime of petty annoyances The mean little an
giles and asperities of masculine character the
traits which rasp and gall under the connublal
yoke, and which tests the quality of womanly hero
ism and devotion. Mean little parsimony mean
little filings; mean little or big airs of superiority
and authority; contemplate little whims and
crotchets interferences with the wife's manage
ment of her household affairs and inquistions after
all that she says and does and more insulting aud
intolerable even than brutal abuse-re9l or afecis
ed Jealousy and many more such like exhibitions
of those unmanly traits destroy the wfes respect
for the husband. The Lady Rankin whose devo-
ton rises superior to part or all of these is
greater heroine and more self.sacrhcing one than
she, who for thirty years gave battle to the grim
North for the recovery Of the remains of her loved
and lost.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
Union Theological Seminary, Va.

Mr.. Editor,-Ouce more in the Providence OF
God we have been permitted to assemble in this
spot of so many hallowed associations dear to all
who have ever spent year here and dearer still to
those who have been engaged ia missionary work
during their vacation. The place looks SO invit-
ingy cool and refreshing in comparison to the con-
slant riding over dusty roads under the scorching
summer sum- This class of students are glad to
return on another account also-they have tried
their armor and are to some extent, at least,
scious of its weakness. They have some dim con-
cepton of the struggle before them, they have
found some weak points of whose existence they
we're before ignorant, and are therefore ready for
more earnest and serious work than before. The
greater part of the present senior class have been
engaged in this work and the majority have been
strengthened and return in better health than they
had at the close of the last session. Of the junior
class fourteen have reported. Nine are still abb
sent. OF the Middle class twenty have reported,
nine are still absent Twenty new students are on
the grounds, with others expected every day. So
there are now (Aug l3th) flty-four students here.
Eighteen of last session classes still to be heard
from. This makes a very promising opening
The whole Seminary building has been reprinted
and whitewashed, and presents very much i'm
proved appearance The professors are at their
posts and we have every reason to expect pleas.
ant and successful session. MACON.
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MANY WHO DISAPPROVE.

The,evidence that there are many in the
Northern Presbyterian Church who thorough
ly condemn its course towards the South is
abundant. We quoted last week two com.
munications on this point, from private let
tiers to the Christian Observer and the st.
Louis Presbyterian. Another is given be-
low, in an extract from letter written by
a gentleman residing in Northern State,
whose intelligence, piety and worth, more
than his wealth, give him a high position in
the best circles of society. The date of the
letter is in May last, but the sentiment is as
appropriate now as it was then. The ex.
tract is as follows:
81 hope we have not heard the last of the fra
ternal correspondence between the two Churches.
The action Of the Presbytery of New York indi-
Yates tbins, desire ioT so1e SoaeessioaS On the
part of the Northern Church. The Church of the
South has gone as far as it can 20 consistently
Let it Just wait until the other is willing to accept
the terms proposed. 1t is said that nearly every
minister at the North lat least in this neighbor-
hOOd) acknowledges in private that their Church
record during the war was all wrong. And yet
they 90 to the Assembly and refuse to stand up
boldly and urge action In accordance with their
opinions | have told some OF them that such con-
duct shows a considerable leaven Of Jesuitism. l
can't understand how they can consistently have
one set of opinions as individuals, and another as
members of the Assembly. They remind me of
the soldier Bishop of other days. who on being re-
buked for profanity, said he swOre as soldier and
not as a Bishop but was answered. When the
devil gets hold Of the soldier, where will the Bish
Op be-?
Our people mean to act according to the
advice here gwen; they intend to ''wait, "
and if the other party are content with their
"null and vol" performance, SO be it. If
fraternal relations are postponed until the
Southern Church consents humbly to accept
them in connection with dsreputabe accuse
tions, they will not take place in the days of
this generation.
As the Church journals in certain quar-
ter have been disposed to represent (misrep-
resent the Southern Church as containing
a large party that condemn its position, and
favor that of the other side, it may be well
for them to understand how the matter is
viewed by numbers of the best and most in
tolligent people at their own doors.
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The College Regatta.

The Neso York Evangelist has an abstract of the
excellent sermon on this subject, preached by Rev.
DIR. D Krum, pastor of the FIRST Presbyterian
Church at Seneca Falls, N. Y, soon after the Boat
race at Saratoga. His text was | Tim. w. 8:
BODILY exercise profiteth little" He began by
expressing his great interest in the subject because
he was interested in young men. He then showed
that as system of training for promoting bodily
health it was failure
I'm the second place it was also claimed for it
that it was beneficial in securing good education,
because it furnished sound body in which a sound
mind could best do its work. This Dr. KUN con.
troverted with great force. For securing sound
scholarship and the broadcast aud most liberal Gull
tnre. the mind could not be diverted in this man
ner from its great work. There was a constant
excitement for weeks running all through the COL
lege circles-of contesting crews students not en-
gagged in the boating clubs, professionalism un-
fitted them for the severe application to study
needed for the highest scholarship. The training
must take ups large part of the time that should
! be given to study. The young man who exerted
every particle OF his strength in his boating exer.
cises in which bis mind was also actively engaged,
could not apply himself with the required vIgor to
his studies. The training was mostly given 10 term
time. He was oppressed with care about food.
| ABOUT health. ana nllcu Win a1xtely dS NC
forward to the hour that should end in victory or
defeat Was this the purpose of sending our young
men to college? Besides it was an experiment 10
education. 1t was believed that the system had
not produced single representative who had so
sound mind in so sound body that he had made
Deep broad marx in any department OF life
The old system OF devoting the time to study, was
indeed put upon trial again BY the new, but lis
verdict was long ago given by the Influence the
scholars it had produced have had upon the world.
The Derbys aud Russells and Gadstones. who have
moulded craftsmanship abroad; the Websters and
Summers aud Stewards. who have moulded it at
home the Adams and Alexanders and Storrs. who
have sounded the silver trumpet of the Gospel
most clearly the Choates and Curtises and Esars,
who have stood highest at the bar the Macaulays
and Prescotts and BancrOfts, who have given the
events of the past an eternal setting 10 history
the Bryants and Longleows, who have sung in the
most exalted strains-Dever pulled an oar in a col
lege regatta They did not need this training to
give them sound bodies They lived to pass the
meridian of their days. and many of them passed
beyond the three score years and ten which mark
the ordinary boundaries of life. When they left
their seats of learning, they rose upon the world
at once in brightness. and they held on their way,
performing the most prodigous labors growing
brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. y
As We look at them, and at the meagre results OF
the new system, We may well say, Bodily exer-
else pro6teth little.
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An Old Education Society.

DR.. Plumer, in the Interior of Chicago, gives an
interesting account of Johannes Casparus Fryen-
moet, Swiss by birth, and who lived more than
hundred years ago near the Delaware, where
Port Jervis now stands. f1'
1.-THE plain pious people saw in him much that
attracted their notice and won their confidence
Though he had some knowledge of ancient and
modern languages, yet his education was imperfect.
But the people had no pastor, and no prospect OF
getting one sooner than by taking up this pleasant
youth adopting him as their protege raising the
necessary funds ELS. l2,. Cd, and sending him
10 HoSand 70 spend iouf years In study. Ihey
rightly Judged that one could not teach what he
had not learned. Doubtless many prayer was
offered for him during this long season of prepa
ration. Their church government we'll agreed with
their own notions their practice correspondent
with both.
At length, in TAI, at the age of twenty years,
the youth returned He was no mean scholar
He had been duly ordained by the Chassis of AM
sterdam. In his nature he was very genial; in Ia
bors he was abundant He loved the people and
they loved him. For space of fifty miles he ira
versed the settlements on the Neversink aud the
Delaware, joyfully proclaming salvation to the
lost.
He did the work of an evangelist in field where
now more than twenty well trained ministers OF
Christ are doing the work of the Lord.
After serving these people for fifteen years, the
Indian wars broke out with great fury. Massacre
succeeded massacre till at length our faithful friend
removed to Undertook and its vicinity, where he
abored with fidelity His children become the
lneal ancestry on one side of the Kittles and Van
Burens.
This little narrative shows that,
l. Where there is will there is way. Prayer
and pains can do wonders. Let the sad and the
sorrowing hope and trust, pray and wait, and God
will bring them out into large place in due time.
3 II the churches of these frontier settlements
in the last century did we'll to aid young men in
preparing for the ministry, all churches will do we'll
to help on the same blessed work. till all flesh shall
see Gods salvation.
g. Let those who receive such aid, show all good
fidelity stand up to their engagements in all things
and be men of sterling principle. 1t has been
great reproach to many good cause that some
connected with it have manifested SO little integrity
4. If an unlearned ministry can save and bless
the world, the work will probably be soon DONE
But let those who hold that scribe should be well
instructed for the kingdom of heaven, not be dis.
heartened. Now and then there will be failure,
but in the main the work will 20 on, aud God will
be gorifed.
5. The righteous will be held in everlasting re
membrance. Blessed is the memory of the just. "
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Death of DR.. Hugh H. Mcclure.

DR.. Hugh Holmes Mcclure died at his residence
in Winchester, on Monday, the 9Th, at u A. M.
For some years past he had been IN failing
health, so much so as to disable him from the ac-
tive practice Of his profession, aud about month
ago he received seyxsc fell, which doubtless has
tened his deatl
The.decease STD year and belonged
to generator q lew representatives left
among US. -
He was great MAJ in his profession, and so re-
garded by his professional brethren at home and
abroad. Surgery was the branch in which he es-
pecially exceled, and in which he was most dis.
tinguisbed.
Up to the time when his health gave way his
practice was large and lucrative. and such was his
reputation that patients from the adjoining coun-
ties and States were sent here to be under his treat
ment. Many Of these cases were reported in the
medical journals of his day.
Dr. Mcclure was the founder of the Winchester
Medical College, in which he filled with great sue
the Chair of Surgery until the buildings were
destroyed during the war:
The students of this college. and also those who
studied in his Office always speak in terms of affec
ton aud admiration of their old preceptor.
When the war broke out, Dr. MCGUIRE although
advanced in years, accepted commission as sur
geon in the Confederate army, and had charge of
the hospitals at Greenwood and Lexington, rem
dering efficient service to the cause In which his
feelings were thoroughly enlisted.
A few years ago. be connected himself with the
Episcopal Church, since which time he has been
constant reader Of the Scriptures and religious
books.
In DR.. McGuire's death our city loses one Of its
Oldest and most distinguished citizens Winchester
Times.
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of gloom to penetrate, and in the end to make
resplendent, the densest clouds of paganism
and irreligion (Hear, hear.) But the end
was only, under God, to be achieved by per-
sonal labor, and by conservation to the great
mandate of the Saviour.
The Rec DR.. Wilson, Allegany, United
States supported the resolution, and said
they had constitution and standard given
to them, and they we're from the Lord Jesus
Christ. What they wanted was an inscrlp-
ton for their standard, and he would tell
them what it should briefly be-" The world
for Jesus" Hear, hear With that stan
dard bearing that motto floating before
them they should march bravely and fear
lessly onward, keeping step to the harmonles
of the prophecies, even to the uttermost parts
of the earth. The work would be of no good
unless it resulted in that Thoroughly practical
outcome; and he trusted that ne and all
the brethren from other lands would return
home bearing in their hearts the true spirit
of the unity of nations to that glorious end:
Hear, hear. Their whole Bible, from end
20 end, was nothing other than great docu-
ment upon missions, and the field, as had
been observed that evening, was the world.
Presbyterianism had long carried alOft the
torch of learning and the charter of human
freedom, intellectual and physical, and Its
people would yet march to victory with those
two emblems in their hands to every part Of
the earth, in the end conquering all the
powers of ignorance, darkness, and Oppres
sion. applause.
The resolution was then carried unani
mously.
The Chairman, in the conclusion Of the pro
ceedings, dwelt again upon the happy asso
Citations of this great religious internationa
event, and said their thanks were due to al
extent which mere words could not expires
to all the kind friends who had with suci
lavish generosity thrown open their house,
and their hospitable boards to the numerou
brethren who had come from afar to taxi
part in the Conference--an observation
which was recognized by the large assem-
blage in the most hearty manner.
The benediction was pronounced by M
lie Pasteur Charbonnier, Waldensian Church
and the proceedings terminated.
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Circulation of Religious Newspapers.

The Newspaper Directory by Rowell, of New
York, from which the Herald and ReSbyter, and
some other papers have taken their statements,
has gone far wide of the fact so far as the Central
Presbyterian is concerned 1t should have been
5000 copies instead of 100 The notice below is
from the Nelo York Evangelist. CEN PRES. |
"Our Cincinnati contemporary, the Herald and
PreSbyter, has lengthy leader upon the circula-
ton of religious papers, East and West. Its
:" facts and figures" are derived from RowelPs
Newspaper Directory of the present year, which it
pronounces very reliable publication How this
rectory is dependent on the good will and honesty
of publishers for information. They may refuse
it, and leave its compiers to conjecture, or they
ments of circulation of course an injustice to
advertisers, and to all owners of newspapers who
state the truth concerning their subscription lists
It certainly much becomes the Directory to "bear
an even hand, and not lay itself open by business
connections, or otherwise, to strong temptations
to favoritism. Its proprietors, Messrs Rowell &
Co., are, however, large advertising agents, and,
we presume, good at bargain. 1t is no secret,
we believe that they have large dealings with our
neighbors, the Independent and Christian Union.
who sell out large auvernzlng space in advance, ct
wholesale, and at very greatly reduced figures, to
the proprietors of the Directory, who thus become
directly interested in keeping up the reputed circu-
lation of these papers, Standing in such relations
TO the Independent, and as stock holders of the
Christian Union, 1t is not strange that the Direc-
tory figures are In need of confirmation just now"
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Statistics Of the Northern Presbyterian Church.
The Philadelphia Presbyterian sums up the annual
statement: The additions to the churches on pro-
fesson of faith in Christ will be found to be 80 059
larger number than were ever gathered into the
Church in any one year. except in the year 1874,
when the additions we're 36 OIL. The number of
churches is 4 .999, wanting only one of 5000
-Four hundred and seventy. three churches have
been added to the list since the reunion in 1870.
and 3l2 dissolved. large number of the dissou-
tions have resulted from the union Of Old and New
School churches. In every other column in the
summary advance is indicated, with the exception
of candidates and licentiates. Here the numbers
are diminishing. If those who maintain that We
have surplus of ministers are right, this is q
change in the right direction.
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. Central 4)rrsbgtrrian.
REV. WILLIAM BROWN, D. D., Editor.
Richmond, Va, Wednesday, Aug. IS, 1875
PRESBYTERIAN ALLIANCE.

A mere sketch of this great meeting held
in London, would fail of giving anything
like an adequate idea of what it was. We
have thefore copied it in full in the present
paper, except so much as was given last
week. 1t claims careful reading from all.
In the estimation Of many wise men over the
Christian Church, it is held to be one of the
most important movements of the day. We
have, from the first, been among those who
hailed it as a token for good, and in what
has been done thus far we can discern. nothing
to create apprehensions of evil. The princi-
pies under which the Alliance is formed are
sound and safe; the objects aimed at are
good and important. What it may lead to
in the future is more than We can tell. If
the movement is in itself vel, pleasing to
God, and can be used for promotion of truth
in the earth, He will prosper it. 1t is an eff
fort to promote the unity, and increase the
efficiency of the Reformed Presbyterian
Churches of the world. 1t will be seen that
T48 in number they were all represented in
this great ConVocation.
1t is not to be wondered at that there
should have been hesitation and doubt in
the minds of many excellent brethren. 1t
was new thing; no such coming together
in council of Presbyterian Churches has been
witnessed before. If it proves useless eff
fort, let it all 60 to pieces; if it be of God,
as we sincerely trust, it will not be over
thrown, but will go on and prosper in the
thing whereto he hath sent it.
Extracts are made from the correspondents
of some of our exchanges, which present
items of interest.
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The Metric System.

This system has been adopted by nearly all the
made legal in the United States in 1866, its use
should no longer be deferred. IL is merely an ex-
tension of the system with which we are familiar
as applied to our currency as follows
MONEY.
10 mills make one cent
10 cents make one dime.
10 dimes make one dollar
ID dollars make one eagle.
The following are the mctrical tables of weights
and measures
10 miigrams make one centigram.
10 centigrams make one decigram.
III decigrams make one gram.
10 grams make one decagram.
10 decagrams make one hectogram.
10 hectograms make one kilogram.
10 Kilograms make one mynagram.
LENGTH.
10 millimetres make one centimeter.
10 centmeters make one decimeter.
10 decimeters make one meter.
10 meters make one dekameter.
10 dekameters make one hectometer.
10 hectometcrs make one kilometer.
10 kilometers make one myrameter.
CAPACITY.
10 millilieters make one centiliter
10 centiliters make one deciliter.
10 deciliters make one liter.
10 liters make one kekter.
10 dekliters make one hectoliter.
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A Memorable Servlce.-Last Sunday alter
noon the funeral OF Miss Helen Barksdale took
place from the Second Presbyterian church OF this
city. she was child of the covenant, a daughter
of an + der, one OF the oldest members OF the
Sabbath School, and large numbers OF sympathis
ing friends, many of them her young companions
crowded the church to unite in the funeral service
The pastor, DIR. Hoge, made most earnest I'm
pressve appeal, first to parents to bring up their
children in the nurture and admonltion OF the
Lord, and then to her young and unconverted
friends to prepare for death and Judgment, by
consecIating their lives to the service OF Cod
The deep feeling manifested ell over the house
leads to the oonsdeEs 's.spe that the Holy Spirit
was accompanying the preacher solemn and ten
der entreaties with His convincing and converting
power. 1t was a comfort to sorrowing hearts to
hear of her going to God in prayer daily for her
own salvation, before sickness laid both mind and
body low.
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Huntsville, Aabama.-The Rev. Frederick A.
Ross, d. D., the venerable pastor of the Presoy-
terrain Church in this place, has resigned the ONCE
of pastor of this church, which he so long and non,
orably held. With faculties Of body and mlno
wonderfully preserved, yet tis. felt that 10 Tue
weight of years should not longer be added tue
burdens Of large and important pastoral charse'
For more than half century he has ably anu ial'n
fully preached 1.-THE unsearchable riches OF OnriS''
and has received from the Master many seas u
his ministry" enjoying the respect and ahection
OF large circle of the best people In the ian,
For year or more, Mrs. Ross has conducted Will
much success Female School in Huntsville ana
the residence of the pastor was removed from the
Manse to the Seminary. There are thousands VINO
will unite with us in sincerely wishing that the
evening of life's long day may he still useful and
tranquil full of the peace of God, and full OF
Christian hope