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The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

To tfe S'Onsunspfive.-E Let those who Bans
guish under the fatal severity of our climate
through any pulmonary complaint,or even these who
There is a safe and sure remedy at hand and one
easily tried. "Wttbor's Compound Of Cod-Licer Oil
ting flavor of the Oil as heretofore used is endowed
by the Phosphate of Lime nth healing property
which renders the Oil doubly eflcacious. Remarka-
byA. B. WILBoR, Chemist, Boston, and all drug
gsts. feb2Odeo&w2w
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03
POpularitV.

THOMAS ECLEcTRIo OIL has obtained great
popularity, from its intrinsic value as reiia-
BILE medicine, in curing hoarseness, and all IT.
ritations of the throat, diseases of the chest,
etc. For these it is an incompatible pulmonic
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

The slang expression, "taffy" was probably
coined from the word epitaph, which generally
expresses the same thing.-Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

I had severe attacks of gravel and kidney
trouble: was unable to get any medicine or
doctor to cure me until 1 used Hop Bitters,
and they cured me in short time.--A Dis
TINGUIsHED LAWYER OF WAYNE Co., N. Y.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

Another member of the New York Legisla-
ture has sent his pass back to Vanderbilt. He
sent it back to have it made out for his family
instead of himself alone. Saturday
Ntohf
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03
REAL ESTATE.
FARM FOR SALE.
Stores 81 mud SO Exchange SfreeI

a RE offered for sale, TO close an estate. The
n tral location of this property makes it desira-
Bile for broker, or the insurance business 1t may
be had on favorable terms. Apply to j. ID. Fessen-
den, Admir-, OF VIM. II. Jerris, Real Estate Agent
feb18 d3ws
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

For cough or sore throat, the best medicine
is Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Tooth ache Drops cure in one minute.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

A true assistant to nature in restoring the
system to perfect health, thus enabling it to
resist disease, is Browns Iron Bitters.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

Fogg has neat way of turning compli-
ment now and then. Seeing the elderly Miss
Pangley in the street the other day he tried to
avoid her, but did not succeed. When they
met, said Miss Papgley, ooh, you naughty
mani You wanted to cut me!' Replied Fogg
blandly 81 should be cutting pretty figure,
wouldn't Is'' Miss Pangley tells her friend,
Miss Sagegreen, that Mr.. Fogg is perfect
gentleman.-Boston Transcript.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

If one dog can be placed on a scent, how
many can be placed on trade dollar?-New
Orleans Picayune
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-03

rBv Social Cable Dispatch to the New York In
dependent from London.l
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02
To the Alumni of Union Theological
Seminary in Virginia.

An explanation is due to some of you Dur
ing the last three years several efforts have
been made to procure items of your ministerial
life, in order to prepare General Catalogue of
this Seminary; but with very limited success,
both as to the number who have replied, and
the extent and accuracy of the information
given. Hence new plan has been adopted, of
sending cards to ALL whose address could be
procured, in order to secure replies more COM
plete and of uniform character. It is hoped that
those who have sent answers to former requests
a0iH not decline the trouble of replying to cards
issued under date of this gear from June on,oar5.
Those who have received cards from Rev. R. C.
Walker, StOvers Shop, Augusta county. Va, or
Rev. F. H. Johnston, Winston, N. c., will reply
to them or me, and any who hare not received
cards will inform me and will send them
B. NJ SMITH, Hampden Sidney, Va.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02
Monthly Review of Missions.

Our latest intelligence from Soochow is to the
18th May. The mission families were ENJOYING
good health, except that the child of Mr.. Davis
was feeble, whom its mother had found it neces
sary 10 take to Shanghai for the benefit of sea
air. According to latest accounts, all were well
at Hangchow, and all rejoicing in the expecta-
ton OF reinforcement of missionaries in the
autumn
We have letters from Campinas in June. Mr..
Lane remarks: Our work goes on in perfect
quiet, and we are devoting ourselves entirely to
the great work which brought us to Brazil &"
MIR. Boyle, in letter, mentions that he had
recently received four persons, on q profession
of faith. to the communion of the church at
Mogy Mirim.
A letter from Rev. Allen Wright, of the 9th
June, mentions that he had got back to his home
and his labors among the Choctaws, after hay
ing been absent for time attending to business
for the Choctaw nation. We have recently re-
celved S4l.25 from the Choctaw church at
bennington, as part of which was intended to
aid In sending missionary to the wild Indians
IN the western part of the territory Rev. Mr..
Iurnbull, Choctaw preacher, mentions that he
had recently held several protracted meetings.
at which there were evident manifestations of
the Spirits presence A number of backsliders
were reclaimed a few were admitted to the
church by baptism, and goodly number seemed
to be lnqulrlng what to do to be saved Mr.
Kennedy, in recent letter, states that most of
the churches under his care seemed to be in a
healthful spiritual condition AT Greenhill eight
persons had been added to the church DURING
the year, and at the San Bots church three had
been added on examination.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall have got back to Browns
vile, much refreshed by their temporary sojourn
In the mountains. Mr.. Graybili has recently
been to Baltimore, for the purpose of comforting
with the Committee about his work. He re-
ports Mrs. Graybill's health as greatly improved,
and he expects to return with her to Matamoras
In the course of few weeks.
We have had very pleasant letter from Miss
Ronzone, of the 18th of June. Two Of her pupils
had recently BEEN received to the communion of
the Waldensian church in Milan, under the care
Of DR.. Tenino, no opposition having been made
by their parents, though they were members of
the Roman Catholic Church. Miss Ronzone has
recently published tract, in the form of
dialogue, on the leading principles of evangeli-
cal religion which has awakened good deal
of interest among the people, and which, it is
believed, is likely to bring about important
spiritual results.-The Missionary for august.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

WE have given in this issue.of our
paper the table of contents of the South
ern Presbyterian RevieaO for July, 1882.
There is no publication that we read with
more interest. 1t deserves the support
of the whole Church. We have had time
to give only a hasty perusal of some of
the articles of this number, Prof. Bar
bour always writes well, and has given
an instructive article on the subject of
The Christ of John. DR.. Mutually gives
short article on a great subject well
Presented-Man's Sympathy with Man,
and the Means of Grace. DIR. Quarles
continues the discussion on the subject
OF DIR. Thornwell and our Church Policy,
and DIR. Adger makes brief but pointed
reply to DIR. Wilson on the manner of
conducting Home Missions. The Review
OF the General Assembly of 1882-one
that will be memorable-is written by
DR.. W. E. Boggs, of Atlanta, Ga. He
devotes nearly one-half of his article to
the Assembly's action on the subjects of
Foreign Missions, Home Missions, Educa-
ton, Publication, Judicial cases and the
famous Park case, and little more than
one-half to the action on "Fraternal Re-
lations." 1t is well that this review
should present full history of the mat
ter. DR.. Boggs, as we knew before, is
one of those who is not satisfied on the
subject, and thinks that some further ex-
PLANTATION should be sought in order to
render fraternity cordial and complete.
The random shots at the literature" of
Recent Publications is written in the
usual terse and racy style of the admir-
able critic.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

OUR Methodist brethren of the South
are taking the lead in the matter of edu-
cation IN China. They are about to es-
tabllsh an institution of high order at
Shanghai, with the prospect of extensive
patronage. A thousand applications have
been made.
Are Southern Presby terians taking due
interest In their missions? If not, they
will be outstripped in the noble work.
1t seems to US eminently wise to endeavor
to reach the higher classes of the heather,
without neglecting the lower. The most
encouraging sign in India and Japan is
found IN the readiness of the more inhu-
entail of the people to avail themselves
OF the advantages of Christian education;
and we believe the same process is fairly
commencing in China. The conversion
OF the poor is blessed work, and those
who labor to save their souls will have
their full reward. But they who "turn
many to righteousness, shall shine as the
stars forever and ever" And this nu-
merical success must be accomplished by
means OF a wise policy. The sources of
greatest influence have to be secured, and
the force of Christian truth propagated
do1OnlOardS.
This does not imply independence of
the Divine Spirit. 1t is simply an appli-
cation of means in the best way, whilst
the whole effect must be expected from
the agency of grace. Our missions should
be in the hands of the ablest men the
Church can furnish.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

IT is not easy to be patient with some
of the writers on the unfulflled pro-
phecies of the Scripture, especially with
those of them who apply certain predic-
tons to present events, such as the war
in Egypt, and with chuckle of conceit
ask, If this does not meet the conditions
of the prophecy, what does? as if the
reader were bound to furnish an answer.
1t is not always that one has a reply
at hand so pat as the one Macaulay gave
to a quid-natnc of the kind.
Mr.. Macaulay, do you not think
Napoleon Buonaparte was the Beast ?"
" No sir, cannot say that do"
"Sir, he aOaS the Beast, and I can
prove it. 1 have found the number 666
in his name. Why, sir, if he was not
the Beast, lOho aOas p
Sir" said Macaulay, the House of
Commons is the Beast. There are 658
members. The three clerks, the sergeant
and his deputy, the chaplain, the door
keeper, and the librarian, make exactly
666.
The House of Commons is the Beast -
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

UNsELFIsHNEss is the sum and the
climax of a perfect character. How rare
grace it is To be endowed with it in
the highest degree, is to come very near
being enabled to fulfill our obligations both
toward God and toward man. To pos
sess it in any degree, is, in so far, to ap-
proximate what we ought to be, and the
possession is most earnestly to be desired
and sought after. The essence of sin is
selfishness, Z. e., it is an assertion of self
will against the will of God. And he
who rebels against the will of God, will
not care for the will, the rights, or the
comfort of his fellows Selfish people
easily become the most despicable people
in the world. But the unselfsh brighten
the worlds dark places, and have charm,
and "sweet attractive grace" which no
other persons possess. What a world it
would be, if selfshness could be banished
from it
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

/" Four of our Church papers have expressed
dissatisfaction Il. e., with the action of the Gen
eral Assembly on fraternal relations) and mum
Der OF correspondents have done the same not
to speak Of others who have been refused hear
ing through the columns of papers which depre-
cate al discussion, at least, on what they think
the wrong side OF the question. "-SoutheT7l Pres.
byterian
We do not know that the reference in
the last part of this paragraph was to the
Central Presbyterian, and we are sure
that our esteemed contemporary did not
purpose to do us any injustice. To avoid
all misinterpretation Gf possible) of our
course we will say that while we have
expressed the opinion that the continued
discussion Of this subject in the religious
journals was distasteful to the bulk of
the Church, and was not likely to do any
good and while we have also declined
to publish some communications sent us,
it aOas not on the ground that these com
municstions were on the wrong side. The
most Of the communications declined were
on the side that we think is the right
side, and the only one published by us
Except DR.. Browns Calm Review" was
one censuring the course OF the Assem-
bly,. We do not condemn those who may
think that there is something to be gained
for the greater satisfaction of the Church
by further agitation. We certainly differ
from them in opinion. But we have not
said that even so far as this paper was
concerned there should be no more dis
cussion. We have offered to one of the
ablest and best men of the Church, who
deeply regrets the action Of the Assembly
the use Of our columns to express his
views, il, in his Judgment, it shall be
deemed best to do 50. We have no dis
position to choke off discussion on any
subject which concerns the interests Of
the Church, but we would be unworthy
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

IT WILL be seen from the Comparative
Summary published in this paper, what
progress our Church has made during the
last year, and also during the last five
years. In the last year there has been
an increase of 20 ministers, and there are
Is more candidates. So that as far as
the ministry is concerned the Church
stands about as it did year ago. Fifty
six new churches have been organised,
and the labors of the ministry have been
more fruitful in additions to the Church.
There has been an increase in the
amounts contributed to nearly all the
Church enterprises, notably to the Home
Mission departments. We regret to see
that there was a small diminution in the
amount contributed to Foreign Missions.
Our Church is making steady but not
a rapid progress, and we should not be
satisfied at the exhibit made.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02
WILL PALESTINE BE COLO-
Missed

Not few Of our newspapers, secular
and religious, have been making repre-
sentatlons for some time past upon this
subject which are certainly very re-
markable. They tell us of a wonderful
tide OF Jewish population now flowing
back to Palestine, and if these statements
are to be received as correct, it would
be natural to conclude that the restora-
ton of this people to the land of their
fathers is to be expected as a speedy re-
atty 1t is not our purpose here to
enter upon debated ground All readers
of the Bible know what " exceeding great
and precious promises" to the House
OF Israel lie scattered profusely over
the pages of their prophets. These i'm
mense blessings are yet in store, but
whether they are to be understood as
promising literal return to their an
Gent heritage, or, if so, when it is to
take place, are questions about which
learned Interpreters are, and have long
been very much divided. The matter
at present before us is not question of
prophecy but simply question of fact
Is it true that there are now marked in
dications that Palestine is to be colonised
by Jews, or by any other people?
A very interesting article on this sub
ject may be found in Tie Catholic P,es5v-
terrain for July. 1t is written by the Rev
Henry H. Jessup, D. D., well known as
an eminent missionary from the United
States, and whose qualifications from a
long residence at Beirut, to give reliable
information on the point before us, are
of the highest character. He says ex-
pressly that "the newspaper stories of
great Jewish colonies pouring into Pales-
tine, and buying up hundreds of thou
sands of acres Of land, are mere fabrica-
tons" On the other hand the tide of
Jewish emigration seems turning to the
Western continent, and if the Jews are
as shrewd in the selection of home for
their families, as they are in the trans
action of business, they will not long
hesitate between such land as PaIes-
tine and such a country as the United
States"
Besides this, the Turkish government
is fixed in its determination to prevent
like organised colonisation by
non-Mohammedan communities in any
part of Palestine or Syria. In the re-
cent disgraceful prosecutions which the
Jews have undergone in Russia and Ger
many, an application was made by those
residing in Roumania that they might
GENE to Turkey. The answer of the
government was that they were welcome
to come, provided, 1st, that they would
become Turkish subjects, and I'd, that
they would not settle in Palestine.
Then again we learn that the German
colonies established at Jafa and Haifa
are in most straitened condition, and
their continued existence for any con
time is extremely doubtful.
The Jewish model farm at Jaffa is a
failure. And from such facts as these
the answer Of DIR. Jessup seems we'll
gIounded when asked" Is Palestine
going to be coonised? 2" eve should
say decidedly, No. There is no present
prospect of Jewish occupation of Pales-
tine"
a-|-
IT WILL be seen from the Comparative
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

REFERRING to one of his good letters
from the East, DR.. Field in this weeks
Evangelist says, a change of three let
ters in a word into two makes all the
difference between seventy and t,Oenty
which caused the mistake which our
readers may have perceived last week in
the number Of palm trees at Elm"
A typographical error seldom occurs
in the Evangelist, and when it does, an
editor can bear it more patiently than a
correspondent, especially if he has the
old edition of the Bible which made the
161st verse Of the 10th Psalm read
" Printers have prosecuted me without
cause"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

The Presbytery Of Montgomery stands adj
journed to meet at New River church on We'd
nesday, August 23d, at II o'clock A. M. Ses-
sions are required to send up Narratives for
Synod, embracing the time since stated meeting
last fall and to report the balance due pastors,
together with the method Of collecting salaries.
7. B. PRICE, Stated Clerk.
Members coming by the N. & w. Railroad
will be met at Central Depot with comfortable
conveyances. We will be glad if all delegates
who expect to come by said route would COM
municate with Mr.. Jesse A. Miller New River
Bridge Pulaski county, Va
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

COUNTIES WITH NO CHURCHES The
following twelve counties Of Pennsylvania have
no Baptist church Synder, Lebanon, Juniata
Perry, Cumberland Adams, Franklin, Fulton
Bedford, Forest, Elk, and Cameron; while
Somerset, Clinton, Monroe, and Pike, have only
one each. These counties represent popula-
ton Of more than 100000.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

"IT IS through the influence Of Medi-
cal Missionaries that Mahommedans
high in Office are oftenest reached. It
was in consequence Of curing the Gov
ernor Of Jerusalem that DR.. Richardson
obtained admission to the Mosque Of
Omar, which so many before had sought
in vain.
The lion Of Antiochus crouched before
the man who extracted thorn from his
foot, and suffering has made some Of the
haughtiest of the Pashas humble and
teachable."
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

III ~ 'IHAL i
men who have lived on the earth were
the sturdy Hollanders, whose splendid
struggle for civil and religious liberty
during the days of Philip and the Duke
OF Alva, will never be forgotten. Of that
at6 too, were the Covenanters of Scotland,
and the Huguenots of France, and the Pill
grim Fathers of New England. When
whole peoples have bound themselves by
solemn leagues and covenants they have
been as invincible in arms as they have
been infexible in faith.
So too of the individual workers whose
heroic devotion to duty has Illuminated
history and given inspiration to all that
is noblest in humanity,-they too, almost
without exception have been men who
were loyal to duty just in proportion as
they were loyal to their creeds. We
need not enumerate them. The great re-
formers, the great missionaries, the great
martyrs, will supply the muster roll of
these heroes of faith.
When man like dainty Mr.. Matthew
Arnold, who denies inspiration, dis
credits prophecy and disputes miracle, is
yet kind enough to recognise "a power
that works for Righteousness" in the uni
verse, and makes that the sole article of
his creed, the outcome-he draws it mild
is correspondingly small; it is, as he
esthetically defines it, only sweetness
and light" Did any body ever hear of
your Deed without Creed" "sweet-
ness and light men going on foreign
missions, or wearing out life in striv-
ing to rescue their fellows from the
debasement of paganism? Or, as they
scott at missions as visionary and use
less, do you find them in the ranks of
those who fight against the organised
abuses and seemingly irrepressible social
evils which curse our great cities?
Do you find them in Howard Associa-
tons in time Of pestilence? Are they
even represented in the noble body of
self-denying, Jealous teachers, who de-
vote themselves to the instruction of the
six million of children who are gathered
once a week in the Sunday Schools of our
land?
Your no creed man is full of loathing
and scorn for hard, stern, bigot like
Paul, for example, writing epistles brist-
ling all over with grim dogmas, but did
any body ever hear of one of your no
creed men, like that same Paul girdling
the world with a zone of splendid SER
vice at the hazard and loss of all that is
dearest to human ambition?
Did any body ever hear of a philan-
thropist who drew his inspiration out of
his own Sweetness and light" who
could say: Thrice was beaten with
rods, once was I stoned, day and
night have L been in the deep?
Deed without Creed Well, if the
Society of Ethical Culture, whose mem
bers crowd Chickering Hall every Sun
day to hear Prof. Adler, becomes a per-
organisation-notwithstand gits
protest against creeds-it will follow in
the wake Of all similar associations, each
one of which has performed the deed of
burdening the world with another creed.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

The Pesbytery Of Roanoke will meet at
Gravel Hill church, near the Buffalo Lithia
Springs. on Thursday, August Oath, at IL NJ.
H. A. Brown, S. Clerk.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

Presbytery of Fayetteville will meet at Sher.
wood church, Cumberland county, N. c., on
Friday, September 18th, 1882, at II A. M.
]. ?. MCPHERsoE. s. Clerk.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02
ECCLESIASTICAL NOTICE

Abingdon Presbytery meets in Jacksonville,
Iazewell county, Va, on Wednesday. Septem-
Der 9Th, at u P. M.
E. II. BARNETT, Stated Clerk.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

The Presbytery of Lexington will meet in
Central Church, Clarksburg. w. Va, August
30th, at u P. M. r. c. WALKER,
Stated Clerk
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02

to conduct religious journal if we exer-
cised no discretion in regard to what
should be published.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-02
s1~ Minutes of 1882 General Assem-

bly,, are now ready for distribution. Order
from Jackson & Bell, Wilmington N. c. Single
copy so cents; ten copies or more 80 cents each
when sent to one address.
JOSEPH R. WILSON, s. Clerk.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-02-02
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