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THE TRUE SPIRIT.

[The writer of the letter below will be greatly
surprised at finding it in print but may be as
sured that the name and residence of the author
are kept in sacred confidence. 1t is published be-
cause it says something in plain straightforward
way that will do good. The spirit manifested is
one that auimates thousands OF our church mem.
bers, scattered and retired, it may be, but who
read our religious periodicals, and are well inform.
ed as to the operations and wants Of the Church.
When people do not havethe support Of pastor
on their hands, so far from making this an excuse
for not contributing to purposes of benevolence.
they ought to give the more, and it is sad thing
if the elders neglect to attend to this matter. And
one reason for publishing this letter is to stir up
this and other churches that are remiss as well as
to remind Christian people, where they have such
siortcomng elders, that they ought not, that &C
count, to be shortcoming themselves. The con.
science of this good lady Judged rightly, and il
others go and do likewise. it will be well-pleasine
to Him to whom we must all give account.
Folks are accustomed to say that, next after her
husband and children, the dearest earthly thing to
woman is new bonnet. But when it becomes
necessary our dear Christian women will not stand
on the question Of making the old ones last year
longer-though we sincerely hope that the but
ter and fowls Department. Of this household may
now have far greater prosperity than ever
"Dear Doctor Brown. .-Ruclosed please find
four dollars, / wish you to Apply one dollar to the
Committee of Sustcntatian, one to the Publishing
House, and two to the Educational Fund. Our
church having been withouti pastor during the
winter, the collections for swfentation and Publ
cation were not attended to / have always been in
the habit of contributing my mite to these objects.
have been trying to convince my conscience that
was not now called upon to give that it was the
fault of the officers of the church and not mine.
find it will not be quieted by any such logic ask
you to appropriate the dollar to the debt on the
house purchased by the Committee of Publication,
because feel great interest in that debt being
paid. confess to a considerable degree of pride
in our dear old Church. Il believe our Southern
Church is the true old Church. 1t grieves me TO
see her anguishng in the DUST our Committees
constantly straitened for the want of MEANS How
different it would be if Christian people could be
convinced of their duty Ito take no higher view
of i'll it ought to be considered great privilege
Until Gods people do give; not only cheerfully,
Christ will languish. The appeal from the Score
tarSy Of Education in your last paper, which have
Just read touched my heart, and pray there may
be hundreds in our Southern land whose heart:
the Lord has touched" that they may respond lib
orally. Would that had it in my power to give
tenfold more out of the proceeds Of my butter anc
fowls this winter; send you about fifth. Thil
| do at the risk Of ,oeariag my bonnet the hTO
| ~
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A letter has been received recently from Rev.
Mr.. Graybil, giving an account of the purchase OF
the lot for the church at Matamoras, which will be
interesting to our readers.
MATAMoRAs, March 80, 1876.
"Our little church is rejoicing in the fact OF
our having purchased the lot for the church build
ing II is matter Of profound gratitude, lst,
because it is very difficult to purchase lot here at
all; End, because it is an excellent location, cor
ner lot, and situated between the part OF the city
in which most of our members live, and the most
populous part of the city; only two squares from
the main Plaza. 1t is remaI kably cheap--we pur-
chased for S350-and we had been asked 50, 500
and 81 500 for lots not any more desirable We
deeply feel the hand of the Lord in this NATTER
There had been $570 subscribed here for the pur.
chase of the lot, SO we have 1920 lett over, and
with that amount we resolved in the meeting OF
our session day before yesterday, to begin the work
with gratitude, faith, and prayer. One OF my ell
ders is brick maker; he says with the 500 he will
begin to make the brick. The other elder is car
penter, and he says with the remaining $l2O, he
will make the door and window frames. They are
trust. worthy men and know what they are about
They said, we feel that we must 90 forward, and
although we have the assurance OF only few hun
dred dollars, we believe that God will put 1t into
the hearts of His people to send the needed amount
in due time thought so too, 80 we resolved to
begin. Those who send help may be assured that
the work will keep pace, if not 60 little ahead OF
their money We throw the cause OF the Lord
upon His people and believe it ,oW be done this
year.
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Presbytery of Paducah

Met at Uuiontown, Kv.,. April 6th and was
opened By a sermon on Ezekiel xxxvi: 26, u from
Rev. j. T. HeDdIick, d. D. DR.. Hendnck was
elected Moderator, and l. Il. Robinson, NJ. D.,
Clerk
The churches are generally reported to be in
prosperous condition, especially such as MAINTAIN
the stated ordinances OF the sanctuary. Oar Sun
day Schools are in healthy state, elicitipg deep
interest and achieving good success. A few OF our
feebler churches are deficient in this important de-
partment of Christian effort.
Decided progress was reported in the Sustenta-
ton work. with fair prospect OF overtaklng some OF
our destitutions l. is confidently expected that
we shall soon have TWO additional ministers to aid
in doing the work of the Lord Important action
was taken on the last Assepbly's Minute OF Sys.
tematic Benefcence.
Presbytery expressed the hope for permsnence
in our methods Of conducting the work Of Educa'
ton. Frequent changes are to be deplored.-
What we need is not so much new method, as q
diligent working of that which We have adopted.
As to the General Presbyterian Council, Presby-
terry cordially approves OF what was done by the
last Assembly, and hopes future Assemblies will
pursue the course so happily entered or at st.
L1uis.
Rev. J. T. Hendrick. d D., resigned the office
of Stated Clerk which he has filed acceptsby for
many years, and Rev. d. 0. Davies was unami-
mously elected
Commissioners to the assembly Rev. d. 0.
Davies, principal, and W. A. Morton. alternate.
DR.. A. B. KlDkead, principal, and W. j. Mar.
shall, alternate.
Dr.. Hendrick reported The organization Of a
church at Clinton, the county seat OF Hickman
county, consisting of sixteen members, and having
two deacons with encouraging prospects OF success.
Authority was granted to the pastor and session
of the Henderson church to organizs church at
Posey's Chapel should the way be clear.
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Presbytery of Central Mississippi

Met in Yszoo City, Miss. April 5h. Sermon
by Rev. R. H. Caldwell. Rev. w. H. Thompson
was elected Moderator.
Mr.. James Y Fair, licentate, was received
from South Carolina Presbytery and ordained to
the full work of the ministry A committee con-
ssting of Rev. s. s. Brown, I. l. Haman aud u
NJ Atkinson were appointed TO install him on the
fifth Sabbath of April, a. Canton.
Rev. j. A. Graves is to be ordained and installed
ssl snsnd s s 2S Of Rev. q D 'ns d Ffss
vices. "a
Rev. T. L. Haman was in jed at Yazoo .hty
on Sabbath afternoon of the ,sbytsry Rev. DIS.
Hunter, c. NJ. Atkinson ani H Thompson Of
floating.
The Benton Presbyterian church we dissolved
and the members transferred to the lazoo City
church
The Benevolent Schemes of the church received
due share of attention, aud 1t Is hoped that tne
offerings to these objects will be larger 10 the fu-
ture.
The narrative does not Indicate as much spiritual
life and activity in the Masters Cause could be
desired. No report OF any special work OF grace.
or OF large ingatherngs into the fold OF Christ
Yet few additions to most of the churches from
which reports have come pp.
Parts Of trial were assigned to candidate 6. L.
Story.
The fall meeting is to be held at French Camps,
September q, at 7:30 2. d.
Rev. Messrs R. Price, s. NJ. Shelton and H. s.
Fulkerson were appointed to visit the Vicksburg
Colored church and to examine iuto its condition
and report at the next stated meeting oil Presby-
terry.
Baptism. -Resolred. That we recommend to all
the churches under our care that they supply their
respective church or congregational libraries with
a copy OF Dse's work on the So. jet of baptism.
Dancing - ResolUtd, That it tSthe sentiment of
this Presbytery that promiseuous dancing is un-
christian and contrary to the standards Of our
Church and the deliverances of the General Assem-
bly,.
Sunday Schools for the Colored Psople.-Re.
solUed, That all our churches are earnestly recon-
mended to establish Sunday Schools for the color.
ed people wherever practicable, to be under the
control and direction of some member OF the ses-
sion or some suitable person appointed BY them.
9. NJ. ATKINSON, STATED Clerk.
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CENTRAL PRESBY T E r A n
the scheme upon its present footing. 7

the scheme upon its present footing. 10
commission whoever may be found going to
Europe upon his own errands would not beiit
the dignity of the occasion, and would be
otherwise unsuitable. Perhaps some modifi-
cations in reducing the number, or providing
for more Accommodation BY writing,
might be contrived.
4. THE duty of harmony among OarSeI0es
This subject of the Alliance will be brought
up before our next Assembly BY the report
of DR.. Robinson, concerning his mission to
the meeting last July, and by papers adopted
by some of the Presbyteries. Il may and
ought to call forth an earnest DISCUSSION
But there is no reason why it should be
heated one; there is every reason Why 1t
should not. Il would be shame if it is
otherwise than in brotherly kindness. We
have no right-no man has-to dictate what
course our Assembly should take, but in con
tributing respectfully our mite of counsel, we
venture earnestly to urge the supreme i'm.
portance of looking to harmony among our
selves. Should majority think partici-
patton in this Alliance unconstitutional, or
unsafe, it will end the matter. Should the
majority think the other way, still if an adj
herence to this line of conviction be found a
deep grievance to others, it seems to ou'
judgment clearly duty to forego the further
prosecution of the matter. Any general ad
yantages resulting from this association
would be too dearly purchased at the cost
of an element of dissension in our own bos
ON. In the event, however, of approving, ye
concluding not to 60 farther, minute shoulc
be framed setting forth the grounds of suct
course, and expressing towards the genera
purpose of this Alliance the utmost good will
and our prayers for its usefulness in accom-
plishing the worthy purposes for which it ii
constituted.
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Transportation Of Commissioners to the Gen
eraI Assembly TO meet at Savannah, Ca,
May 18th, 1875.

The following Railroads viii return Commission
ers free that have paid one full fare coming:
Georgia Central & Brsmley Savannah Il Mem
phis; Selma & Cult: New Orleans 4 Selma; Jack
sonville, Pensacola & Mobile; Georgia; South Car.
DINA; Carolina Central; Port Royal; North East
ern; Atlantic & Gulf Atlantic Il Richmond Air
Line; Fernsndins 4 Cedar Keys; Cberaw Il Oar
hogtOn; Vieksburg Meridian Washington g :, y
Ohio; Washington City, Virginia Midland & u. s.;
Northern Central Baltimore 4 Potomac; Alexan-
dra 4 Fredericksburg Memphis 4 Charleston
Spartanburg Il UpiOu; Mobile & Alabama; Crank
Trunk; Msysville 4 Lexington; arkansas Central (;
Western & Atlantic; Nashville, Chstanooga Il st.
Louis; Gulf. Western Texas & Pacific; Memphis
Il Little Rock; Memphis Il Tennessee; St. Louis
Alton Il [. H.; st. Louis, Salem 4 Little Rock (;
Atlanta & North Carolina; Cherokee; Alabama
Central and Eastern Kentucky.
The following Roads viii seu return tickets six
cents per mile;
Memphis, Carthage & Northwestern; Louisville
4 Great Southern; Greenville & Columbia; Mobile
Il Girard; Selma, Rome & Dalton; Savannah y
Charleston; Mobile L Montgomery; Wilmington Il
Weldon; Wilmington, Columbia l. Augusta; Char
lotte, Columbia 4 Augusta; Western RR. of Ala
bama; Montgomery Il Eutauls.
The following Roads charge full fare, and return
at One-ffth fare upon certificates;
Louisville, Psducah & South Western; Paducah
4 Memphis; Missouri, Kansas Il Texas; St. Louis Il
South Eastern; Cairo d St. Louis; Texas Pacific;
Galveston, Houston L Henderson.
Louisville Central Short Line, So round trip.
Houston Il Texas Central, special rates upon
application Of Commissioners with certificates.
The following Roads make no deduction:
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; Mobile
& Ohio; Little Rock & Fort Smith, Kansas City Il
Northern; Alabama & Chattanooga; Atlantic &
oo,f- Dhoco 10 e q 4
burg.
Most of those returning free viii receive the GER
ti6cates Of the proper officer of Assembly Some
may require different arrangement, impossible
now to designate. Commissioners in purchasing
tickets will make the enquiry and be informed.
FL. a. CRANE,
Chairman Com. Of Transportation.
.Savanaah, Ga, April 20, 1876.
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Sarannah, Ga. April 20, 1876.

The Pennsylvania Prssbyterian.-It SO hap
pened BY some mishap, that We failed to receive
the first number of this paper, aad We were ab-
sent from home when the next came. This has
prevented more than mere recognition of the
advent of this comey and excellent eo-worker
1t is published in Richmond, Kentucky, under
the editorial care Of the Rev. j. w. Pratt, D. D.,
Rev. r. L. Breek, D. D., Rev. 1. G. Barbour,
and Rev. 7. A. Brackeu. These are brethren of
well known ability, whose talents and irAuence are
guarantee for paper Of superior merit.
Those who 1--we in particular part Of the coun-
try are best able TO Judge whether existing period
Gals satisfy their taste, or are to be eonfded in as
safe and impartial guardians Of the interests of the
Church and when they are not thus satisfied, they
viii exercise their right &c establish others. We
welcome this new journal Of our Southern Pres6y-
terian Church. and wish for It ths greatest posi-
Die usefulness and prosperity.
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ScRIBNERs MONTHLY for May Conducted by J..
G. Holland. Published by Scribner & Co., TAB
& 745 Broadway, New York.
Contents Portraiture of William Penn; The True
Pocahontas; How shall we spell Sh k-sp RS Name?
Singing Robes; Philip Nolan's Friends, or {" Show
your Passports ~ The Visionary Face; Gabriel Con-
roy; "If Love and Life were One;" Bowdoin Col
lege; The DeFoe Family in America Hearing with
the Eyes; John Gutenberg; The Wedding at Ogden
Farm; Louise; Revolutionary Letters; Some Elk.
periments in Cooperation LIE Coureur des Bots;
The Two Greetings Ny Birhright; Topics of the
Time; The Old Cabinet; Home and Society Gull
ture and Progress The Worlds Work; Brio. "a Brac.
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Magazine for Girls and Boys Conducted by Mary
Mapes Dodge.
Frontispiece, Various Head Dresses of the Pre-.
sent Day. The Palace of Gondoforus; The Cat and
the Countess; What they Say; The Postman's Boy;
Animated Shot Guns Burning Peaches; The Dot
terels Luck; A Nest without Eggs; Windsor Castle;
Clough's Top. Knot; The King of the Hobbledygob
Inns Talks with Girls The Boy Emigrants; "None
but the Brave deserve the Fair" The Sparrows'
May Day; Robin and Crocus; Peep at Old Lom-
hardy Yacob and his Donkey Snow Flakes May.
Day in Doors, or The Yotopski Family Rehearsal;
Little House Keepers Page; Jack.in the Pulpit !;
For Very Little Folks; The Little Schoolma' am
Report on A Short Tale; The Letter Box The
Riddle Box.
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Rev DR.. D. B. Ewing, we are glad to learn,
will remain with his old church, Hebron, in Au-
gusta county, Va. This church had met Hith such
serious loss in the death and removal of some of
its abes supporters, as greatly to discourage them
concerning the support of their pastor. While in
this perpexity season Of refreshing came, and
such an event has wonderful effect in setting
things to rights. Long may the pastor remain,
and long may his work be prospered.
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Presbytery of Atlanta

Closed its sessions in Newman, Ca, on the Sth
inst Rev. r. G. Ketchum was elected Moderator.
Rev. j. L. Rogers obtained leave to labor in our
bounds until the next meeting.
petition was presented signed By number
of persons identified with the mission enterprise in
connection with the Central church. Atlanta, aud
now under the care of Rev. w A. Dabney. icen-
tate of the Presbytery, and asking to be organized
into a separate organization. The petition was
granted, and committee appointed consisting OF
Rev. Messrs. j. I. Leftwich. d. D.. John Jonot.
j. Fl. Martin, and ruling elders S. ID Mcdonnell
to effect said organization. When organized, this
will be the Fourth church in Atlanta.
Colored Church.-The committee Amounted to
organize the colored members OF White Oak church
into separate organization under the scheme OF
the General Assembly, reported that they had dis
charged the duty and had organized church con-
sistipg of twenty-five members with three ruling
elders.
Committees to organize churches at Midway,
Covington and Jonesboro, were continued.
Bethany church was chosen as the place OF the
nexs meeting.
Instructed The commissioners to the Assembly
were instructed to T" bring to the attention OF the
General Assembly the necessities and claims Tor
pecunisry support, of the Theological Seminary at
Columbia, s. g.. and to urge that body, on the
ground of eqlity, to adopt measures TOR raising
funds for tnis institution within the bounds OF all
the Synods under its care, and thereby share with
the Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, and Ala
bama in this good work.
The following overture was also ordered to be
sent up:
The Presbytery of Atlanta, at au adjourned
meeting, held on the ooh of June, 1875, having
dismissed Rev. II. I. Harvey, at his own request
to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and
the Synod of Georgia, having at its last meeting
pronounced this action irregular" this Presby-
terry respectfully asks the judgment of the Cen
eral Assembly in relation thereto.
Presbytery resolved to hold an adjourned meet
ing in the Hunter street church eo,fce, Atlanta,
on the first Tuesday in June, at 9 A. NJ
The stated Clerk was instructed to have publish
ed 300 copies of the Minutes of the presen. ses-
sons. JAMES STACY, Stated Clerk
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Giving and Worship. question, we find,
has awakened irquiry in the minds of many. Two
communications concerning it will be found in this
paper, and when our brother X has finished
next week, there may be occasion for something
further
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The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States

VIII meet in the First Presbyterian Church Of
Savannah. Ga, on the third Thursday 18th day.
of May, 1876, at II A. N. The opening sermon
viii be preached by the Rev. NJ. D. HOeE, d. D.,
Moderator of the last Assembly.
The undersigned, Committee on Commissions,
viii be present in the Lecture room Of said church,
at P. NJ. of the nth Of May, TO enroll the names
of Commissioners.
The special attention of Presbyteries is called to
the action touching the Assembly Contingent and
Commissioners Fund, recorded on pages IS and
sc of Minutes of 1875.
JOSEPH R. WILSON. Stated Clerk.
WILLIAM BROWN, Permanent Clerk
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Richmond. Va. Wednesday. April 90, 1876.

ng- LOOK AT Your LABEL.-Our sub
scribers are urgently requested to examine
their accounts, as presented on the label at
tached to their papers. Where remittance
is due, please help it this way, and hinder it
not.
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General Synod Of the Reformed Church seaa5
as its delegate to our Assembly Rev. G. H. Mande-
vile, d. D., primsrius. with Rev. W. H. Clark,
Secundus.
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University Of Virgins. AT the meeting of the
new Board of Visitors Of the University held April
18th. Mr.. Stuart was elected rector. Messrs. s u
srt, Booock, and Randolph were constituted the
Executiye Committee.
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LITTELL's LIVING AGE. The numbers for the
weeks ending April 18th and2 contain: The He
brew Woman, by Constance de Rothschildi What
She Came Through, Parts and IL, by Sarah Tyt-
Ter; The Myth of Demeter and Persephone, Part II,
by Walter q. Pater; The Life and Labors of Fran
els Deak, 1SO3-ls76 by Karl Blind; The Fair of
St. Nicodeme, by the author of Patty" A Glimpse
of the Korea, by c. A. G. Bridge; Servia from The
British Quarterly Reuie'c Some Aspects of Friend
ship, BlackwOOd; Principal Tulloch on Spiritual
Evolution, Spectator; The Hurricanes, Spectator;
Little Bobby, Sketch in Paris, BlackpoOd; HUI
NOR, CornhM; Heligoland, Saturday Reriew; Art
Needlework, Pail Mall Gazette; and other valuable
articles together with select poetry and miscellany.
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ECLECTIC MAGAzINE-The Eclectic for May con-
tains the conclusion of the Rev. James Martin.
eau'S paper on "Modern Materialism Its Atti-
tude towards Theology" which is attracting so
much attention both in this country and in Eng.
land. 1t is in response to Professor Tyndalls pa
per on Materiasm and its Opponents. and is
the abest bit of criticism to which the doctrines
of the famous Belfast Address have been subjected
Another extremely important and suggestive pa
per is that on 1.-THE Catholic Peril in America
By Mr.. Francis E. Abbott. The statistics which il
contains of the growth of the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States are of the most start.
ling character. The editorial paragraphs on home
and foreign literature, science, and art, are, as
usual, interesting and varied. The number also
contains portrait of President Andrew D. White,
Of Cornell University, and brief editorial sketch
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THE Annual Meeting Of the Trustees o
the General Assembly viii be held in th'
Presbyterian church, ChaELO.ts-N. G.
= ,, rse 4sh day -, St II
o'clock, A. NJ. JAMES HEMPHIIL,
President.
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Frof. Warren Duprs, of Spartanburg: S. G., has
been elected President of the Martha Washington
Female College, at Abingdon, Va.
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OF MS lie.
Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Street New
York. Terma IS per year Single number, As
nanfa

BLAoKwooD's MAGAZINE for April Through the
Leonard Scott Publishing Company, N. York.
Contents:
The Dilemma-Part XII; Mountaineering in the
Himalaya 1s95.-Chapters I.-IX; Mr.. Ashley's
Life of Lord Palmerston; Browns Peccadillo Nor
man Macleod