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Mr. r. 12 THE LIB ATiO Jl POETKY. From th Hew Borer, published In ISM. COURTSHIP Or CAFT.

MILES BTAUDISH. A true Historical Romance. bt mosss bcilixs, 1792. About this rather Angular production, a word or two teema necessary. Whether it be really a genuine atfcpn or more modern imitation it a question for critics to discus.

We can only throw such light upon it aa wa happen to possess, and auch aa the document bean on the face of it. In order to ascertain whether the ballad was founded in truth, we hare turned to some old New England Chronicles, and find that the whole story is true to the letter. Capt. Miles Standish did come OTer in the Mayflower, and his wife's name was Rose. Mr.

John Aides) and Mr. William Mullins were among the number that came over in the same vessel. Mr. William Mullins had a daughter whose name was Priscilla, and the main incident, according to the chronicles, actually occurred precisely as related in the poem. BALLAD.

Miles Standish in the Mayflower came Across the stormy wave. And in that little band was none Mora generous or brave. Midst cold December's sleet and snow On Plymouth rock they land Weak were their hands but strong their hearts, That pious pilgrim band. Oh, sad it was in their poor huts To hear the storm-wind blow And terrible at midnight hour When yelled the savage foe. And when the savage, grim and dire.

His bloody work began, For a champion brave, I have been told, Miles Standish was the man. But oh, hia heart was made to bow With grief and painfull low, For aickness on the pilgrim band Now dealt a dreadful blow. In arms of death so fast they fell, They scarce were buried, And his desr wife, whose name was Rose, Was laid among the His sorrow was not loud, but deep For her he did bemoan And such keen anguish wrung his heart, He could not live alone. Then to John Alden he did speak John Alden was his friend And said, Friend John, unto my wish I pray thee now attend. My heart is sad, 'tis very sad, My poor wife Rose has gone And in this wild and savage land I cannot live alone.

To Mr. William Mullins, then, I wish you would repair, And see if he will give me leave To wed his daughter Priscilla was his daughter's nsme. Comely and fair was she, And kind of heart she was, withal. As any maid could be. John Alden, to oblige his friend, Straightway to Mullins went, And told his errand like a man, And asked for his consent.

Now Mr. Mullins was a sire Quite rational and kind, And such consent would never give Against his daughter's mind. He told John Alden if his child Should be inclined that way, And Captain Standish was her choice, lie had no more to say. He then called in his daughter dear, And straightway did retire, That she might with more freedom speak, In absence of her sire. John Alden had a bright blue eye, And was a handsome man, And, when he spoke, a pleasant look O'er all his features ran.

lie rose, and in a courteous way His errand did declare, And said, Fair maid, what word shall I To Captain Standish bear Warm blushes glowed upon the cheeka Of that fair maiden then At first she turned away her eyes, Then looked at John again 'And then, with downcast, modest mien, She said, with trembling tone, Now prithee, John, why dost thou not Speak for thyself alone 'Deep red then "grew John Alden's face, -He bade the maid good bye But well she read, before he went, The language of his eye. No matter what the language said. Which in that eye was rife In one short month, Priscilla was John Alden's loving wife. THE ROCK In the Valley of the El Qhor. BT JOHJf WH1TTIKR.

Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps, "Her stones of emptiness remain Around her sculptured misery sleeps The lonely waste of Edora's plain. From the doomed dwellers in the cleft The bow of vengeance turned not back 'Of all the myriads, none are'left Along the Wady Mousa's track. Clear in the hot Arabian day Her arches spring, her statues climb Unchanged, the graven wonders pay No tribute to the spoiler, Time I Unchanged the awful lithograph Of power and glory undertrod, Of nations scattered like the chaff Blown from the threshing-floor of God. Yet shall the thoughtful stranger turn From Petra's gates with deeper awe. To mark afar the burial urn Of Aaron on the clifl of Hor.

And where upon its ancient guard The Rock, El Ghor, is standing yet. Looks from -it turret desert- ward, And keep the watch that God has set, The same as when, in thunders loud, 1 It heard the voice of God to man As when it saw in fire and cloud The angels walk in Israel's van Or when from Esion-Gebers way L. It saw the long procession file, And heard the Hebrew timbrels play The music of the lordly Nile. Or saw the tabernacle pause, Cloud-bound, by Kadssh Barnea's While Moses graved the sacred laws, 4 And Aaron swung his golden bells. Rock of the desert, prophet -sung mr -'jjow grew iu shadowing Je length, A' av'imtml tn this TTehrew stirssl love and strength.

On lip of bard and scroll of seer, From age to age went down the name, Until the Shiloh's promised year, And Christ, the Rock of Ages, came I The path of life we walk to-day Is strange ss that the Hebrews trod We need the shadowing rock as they. Wo need, like them, the guides of God. God send His angels, Cloud and Fire, To lead us o'er the desert land God give our hearts their long desire, Ills shadow in a weary lane" 1 tXatlonal Era. KIDNAPPING OB NO KIDNAPPING ON THE SOIL OF MASSACHUSETTS. West Dcxbcbt, Sunday, Jan.

9, 1859. Dub Garrisox Are you for or again tt kidnapping This is the question, the great and vital question, now before the people of this State tho only question of vital importance that ia to occupy the attention of the Legislature this winter. Will the old Bay State allow her citiiens, her voters, her legislators, her judges, and her Governors (for every voter is a legislator, a judge and a Governor) to be kidnapped Every man or woman is a kidnapper who directly or indirectly favors the seizure of any man, woman or child on the soil of Massachusetts under any pretence whatsoever, with a view to make him or her a slave. Kidnapping is the seizure of a man with a view to enslave him nothing more, nothing less, and nothing eUe. No matter by whose authority, or under what pretence, a man seizes another man, a woman or a child, to enslave him or her, he is a kidnapper, and all who aid and abet or connive at it, even by silence, are partakers in the crime, and should be branded and treated in society as kidnappers.

Shall the old Bay State look on and see this blackest of crimes perpetrated on' her soil by any man or set of men, and be dumb, and thu9 confess herself powerless to defend her citizens from it is Massachusetts bound in chains, and laid helpless at the feet of kidnappers Let us know it if she is. To test this question, let the people come up to the State House, at once, by their petitions, from every town, city, village and neighborhood, from Province-town to Pittsfield, and demand of the Legislature a law, declaring every man a kidnapper, and liable to the doom of kidnappers, who shall attempt to arrest, under any pretence or by any authority, a man, a woman, or a child, on the soil of Massachusetts, with a view to make him or her a slave. A man, coming to this State, and residing in any town one year, and paying a poll tax, is a citizen, and has a right to vote, whatever be his color, creed, or condition, provided he is not on the town as a pauper, nor on trial for crime. Will the State allow her voters, her citizens, her rulers, to be kidnapped, by any power Let the people come to the State House, and demand an explicit answer of the Legislature; and let not a man who goes for kidnapping ever be allowed to pollute the State House again by his presence there. Let every member of the present Legislature be compelled to register his name for or against kidnapping.

All men are endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to People of Massachusetts 1 having uttered this grand, self-evident truth, will you allow a man, the image of your God, and an heir of immortality, to be seized by any man or set of men, under any pretence, and put on trial before any tribunal, on the issue whether God made him a freeman or slave, a man or a beast Come to the rescue, people of Massachusetts Save your native State from the damning footprints of the kidnapper Say to 1 the world, the moment a slave from Carolina, or from any spot on earth, touches your sail, he is free, as God made him, and safe from the fangs of the slave-hunter. In making lawB for this State, what has the Legislature to do with the Constitution of any other State or nation Nothing. If the Constitution of the Union sets at nought the -very first principles of the Constitution of the State, which Constitution is the State to follow in making and administering her laws? Let no man or set of men come upon the soil of the old Bay State, and there, in the presence of all her cherished memories, trample the fundamental law of the State beneath their feet by kidnapping her citizens. nENRY C. WRIGHT.

AN ACCEPTABLE NUMBER. Eden, Lancaster Jan. 3, 1859. Friend Garrison Indulge me in a few remarks on some of the contents of No. 53 of the Liberator.

And first, of the resolutions of the Essex Co. A. S. Society. I do not recollect ever to have seen such a series of appropriate epithets applied to the execrable system which they denounce and yet they do not, because words cannot, depict the monstrous enormity.

We want some new words that would not have fitness, if applied to any thing but this unparalleled wickedness. Secondly tho Ashtabula Sentinel, Milwaukee Democrat, and True American, have my hearty thanks for what they say of the New York Tribune, as has W. I G. for copying their outspoken words regarding that overgrown, monoolizing dictatorial periodical. 1 only regret that they did not begin their strictures sooner; but I am not without hope that, even yet, other journalists, who have been building Greeley's fortunes on the ruins of their own, will remember that there were managing, prosperous men in the world prior to his advent, and that they themselves have some manhood, if they will cease to lean on, and look up to, a leader.

The ice is broken let them keep it open. A word to the wise may efiect more than a lecture or a book for the unthinking. Thirdly I would speak, if I knew how, of the two letters from Elizabeth B. Chase and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Please do not call them ladies any more they have established their claim to a far nobler name.

They have proved that they are woxex. Every thing alive in me overflows with gratitude for their womanly feelings respecting the fearful wrong which they were invited virtually to palliate. Buy the homestead of a man who waged a seven years' war for liberty, political liberty, while he refused personal liberty to hundreds of chattels who, in the mean time, were laboring in the fields of that homestead, now to be purchased to perpetuate the memory of this friend of liberty Gentle women did not say what an aged man may and will say, that it is super latively ridicutous ixe wui say more. It was not a womanly conception. It does not comport with the lwt elements of her character to overlook the wrongs of four millions of human beings, one half of whom are of her own sex, whose persons are never inviolate, to commemorate one man who long since was placed be yond tho reach of earthly privation and suffering No, it is not a womanly idea.

omen do not yet figure in the political world, but the sex which does are not slow to seize any thing which may gain rep utation abroad, er be turned into political capital at home. Pride, partisanship and thoughtlessness will account for the movement, and designing party lead era will vie with each other in their praise of it, while the unthinking will say amen, and give their money. It is no less a privilege than a pleasure to give humble response, at seventy-six, to opinions so just. feelings so humane, and utterances so brave, as those the noble women just named. Let the reflecting sisterhood fall into 'rank with May E.

Chase and C. Stanton merit and realize the blessing of permanent peace, is the secret, silent prayer of Site gnhiraitfr. rrooa tbs Kew York Independent WORKING WITH EBBOBISTS. Last week we made a partial confession of our Faith. This week we make a partial confession of our Practice.

And we now print the entire first part of the article from the N. Y. Examiner, the last part of which it was more convenient to dispose of first The Fraternity' and Mr. Beecher. In the congregation ministered to by Theodore Parker, at the Music Hall in Boston, known aa the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society, there is a Hterarv association styled the Fraternit v.

Said Fra ternity has got up a series of Fraternity an avowed obiect of which, if a newspaper announce ment mav be credited, was to eive to the ideas of Mr. Parker a freer scope than tho Lyceum platform allows. But whether that was the purpose or not, it is manifest that the effect would be, so far as any im pression was made on the public, to give increased popularity to the man and his the lectures prove, as has been claimed, the most successful course of the they will reflect a certain lustre unon the Twenty-Eighth Congregational boci and upon the man whose infidelity is its pervading spirit. Such an effect, we should suppose, would be deprecated at least, would not be even constructively aided by a sincere friend of evangelical religion. But the pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn has appeared upon Mr.

Parker's platform, to lend to it his popularity. Mr. Beecher has asserted his right to do in all things what is right in his own eves, and we are not disposed, even if we were able. "to abridie his liberty. But it is utterly incomprehensible by us, how he reconciles with his love for the Gospel Buch open aid and comfort to its bitterest enemies.

To appear with Mr. Parker, contemporaneously or successively, upon a platform which represents neither him nor his is one thing; to assist in giving eclat to an innaei enter prise is a very different thing and that is what ev ptv Fraternitv lecturer, and everv purchaser of a Fraternity ticket, has done. Of course, we believe in newspapers, and in edi tors. Yet." even an editor may be mistaken, and a newsnaner mav fall into misstatements And the Examiner bos in this instance been misled by a too confiding tru6t in religious or secular newspapers It i8 true that the Fraternity Course was under the supervision of members of. the lwenty-iiigntii Congregational Society of Boston, but it is not true that it was cot ud for tho sake of giving Mr.

Par ker's ideas a freer Bcope than the Lyceum platform allows if by ideas the Examiner means Mr. Parker's characteristic religious views. On the contrarv. it was known that Mr. i'arker was preparing four historical discourses, on Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, and (we believe) Franklin.

But such was the ill-odor in Boston of Mr. Parker's religious notions, that a studious care had been exercised to keep him lrom Huston lecture plarforms, though history, art, or belles let- tres were ms tneme, iesc me inuuence oi any tuing that was crood in him should reflect a lustre upon that part of him which religious men bo much dep recate. But, on the other hand, the attempt to suppress a man, and to silence his speech, on the great topics which are common to men of all religious views, must produce, not only among his personal friends, but among honorable men who utterly differ from him in religion, a determination that he shall have a chance to speak, at least and then, if people did not wish to hear an on secular topics, of course they could stay at home. In other respects, this Lecture Course was like ordinary courses. The only respect in which it was peculiar was, that Theodore Parker was to deliver lour lectures in the course, upon Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.

The funds, over and above the expenses, if there should be any, were not designed to support either Mr. Parker or the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society of which he is the minister. Ihey were to be employed in charitable purposes, and for the most part among the poor and unfriended And if the young men of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society of Boston judged that we were one who would be clad to co-operate with Theodore Parker, in all honorable ways which did not imply approbation of his theology, for objects common to all good men and it they judged that we should be forward to aid all measures, among all sects, which had for their object the improvement of the young, and the relief of the suffering, they judged rightly. We believe in the right of free speech even ot men whose speech, when delivered, we do not believe Did the Examiner think that the young gentle men of Mr. Parker's society got up a course of pop ular lectures tor the sake ot covertly propagating infidelity, and invited me, without disclosing the inward scheme, to garnish the course, and to lend my influence, blindfolded, to such an aim? Or did it never enter the head of the Examiner that a an might associate men from -whose theo logical tenets he utterly dissented, because he sympathized with the special benevolence which they would perform because he had an ethical sympathy with them, in spite of their theology? because he believed that a good man ought always to 6eek occa sions of working with men, rather than of working away from them A should be sorry to suppose ourselves singular in this judgment.

Are we to take the ground that no orthodox man shall encourage the young to self-improvement and to works of benevolence, unless they are sound in the faith Bscause Mr. Parker teaches a wrong theology to the young men of his charge, are we to hold off and refuse to help them when they endeavor to live a great deal better than we should suppose their theology would incline them to? But this is the very case in hand. The young men in Mr. Parker's society undertook to do good by a course of general lectures we lectured in the course good papers are full of gnef and the Examiner regards it as utterly We must be still more incomprehensible, then, when we say, that, though we would earnestly desire men to believe aright in religion, yet, if they will not, then we hope that their life will be better than their creed. And, if we see men of a heretical turn of mind practising Gospel virtu'es and charities, we shall certainly encourage and help them.

For men do not derive the right to do good from the lhirty-Nine Articles nor need they go to the Westminster Confession for liberty to recover the intemperate, set free the bond, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, educate the ignorant, and give sleigh-rides to beggars' children that never before laughed and cuddled in a buffalo-robe It seems to us a great deal better business for a Christian man to encourage men in well-doing, than to punish them for wrong- thmkmg But the Examiner thinks that the success of this course of lectures will reflect a certain, lustre upon the lwenty-kighth Congregational Society, and upon the man whose infidelity is its pervading Bpir- it. Well, what then? Are we to punish an infidel for his infidelity by refusing him all credit for personal goodness, lor active benevolence, for practical humanity If any body docs right, he ought to be applauded. If Mr. Parker does well, he deserves the credit for well-doing. If the young men of his charge do well, they deserve all the lustre of Or shall we take ground that no man who is not of sound orthodox faith is to have any 4 lustre for practical virtues? Must nobody be counted ethically right until he is theologically sound? Such a doctrine would be monstrous Every just and generous man in the community ought to rejoice in the good conduct of every man, without regard to his speculative views of theological affinities If a man institutes a temperance movement, must I refuse to help him because, being a (Jniversalist minister, his zeal and fidelity in that cause would reflect a lustre upon him and his sect If a man would establish and endow a hospital, must I refuse to co-work with him because, being a Unitarian, its success would reflect a certain lustre upon that faith When, in the pestilence in New Orleans, the Sisters of Charity did not count their live; dear to them, but night and day, fearless of death and defiant of fatigue, gave their utmost being to the care of the miserable sick, must a Protestant, refuse admiration or fellowship, for fear a 1 certain lustre would shine upon the Roman Catholic Church If a Jew does nobly, he deserves the lustre which right-doing ought to confer if an Atheist or an Infidel 1 ive virtuously and act honorably, he should have the lustre belonging to virtue and honor! Does the Examiner think that we do not care for our own theologic views We care a good deal.

We shall yield them to man's dictation. We shall not endorse any man a theology which differs B.froin them lrom tnem. we have enough or the oId disciple nature left to feci very desirous that folks who will cast out devils should do it in our train. If thej won't, why then we will help them to do Tt in their way But, if we we to help an fpjaoopaj move ment for general benevolence, would any man say that we endorsed High-Church notions If we were affectionately and urgently invited to Princeton, to examine the senior class in theology, and give them some tender cautions on parting from Turxetin and entering the life of realities, would any body 1 so cruel aa to say that we believed in high Calvinism, or were indifferent to all the woes of conscience produced by that energetic system? Bishop Hughes will never invite us to speak in bis new cathedral, and we not promptly accept it. But we affectionately appeal to the Examiner whether, on such an interesting occurrence, he would think it hia duty to pierce us with bucu remarks as are now puncturing our peace from bis words? If I had gone to Boston to buy carpets or books, or if I had gone to Boston to help the Republican cause, no question would have been raised.

In selfish and worldly interests men are allowed co-operation for common ends. But if I divest myself of all selfish or secular aims, and rise to a higher plane of benevolence, and seek to raise the fallen, to restore the lost, to purify the vicious, to elevate the ignorant, and to cheer the poor and neglected, Christian ministers and editors will not let me co-operate for such divine objects with every man who will sincerely work for them but I must pick for men of right philosophy, for men right in all theology Thus we allow selfishness to go flowing robes and a loose girdle. We make her feet light and her hands nimble. But upon religion we put iron shoes and steel gloves. We burden her with mail, and underneath it all we draw the girt of conscience to the last hole.

Then she goes 6lowly forth, scarcely "able to walk or to breathe I have long ago been convinced that it was better to love men than to bate them that one would be more likely to convince them of wrong belief by showing a cordial sympathy with their welfare, than by nipping and pinching them with logic. And although I do not disdain, but honor philosophy applied to religion, 1 think that the world just now needs the Christian Heart more than any thing else. And, even if the only and greatest question were the propagation of right theology, I am confident that right speculative views will grow up faster and firmer in the summer of true Christian loving, than in the rigorous winter of solid, congealed orthodoxy, or the blustering March of controversy. Does any body inquire why, if so thinking, we occasionally give such sharp articles upon the great religious newspapers, the Observer, the Intelligencer, and the like? pray do not think it for any ill-will. It is all kindness We only do it to keep our voice in practice.

We have made orthodoxy a study. And by an attentive examination of the Presbyterian, the Observer, the Puritan Recorder, and such like unblemished confessors, we have perceived that no man is truly sound who does not pitch into somebody that is not sound and that a real modern orthodox man, like a nervous watchdog, must sit on the door-stone of his system, and bark incessantly at every thing that comes in sight along the highway. And when there is nothing to bark at, either he must growl and gnaw his reserved bones, or bark at the moon to keep up the sonorousness of his voice. And so, for fear that the sweetness of our temper may lead men to think we have i no theologic zeal, we lift up an objurgation now and then as much as to say, Here we are, fierce and orthodox ready to growl where we cannot But the Examiner says The pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn has appeared upon Mr. Parker's platform, to lend it his I neither borrowed nor lent.

I went before an audi ence in the Tremont Temple, the place for the chief part ol puoiic lectures, to give my own ideas, and to exert whatever power I had hy my thoughts and by my feelings upon such audience as pleased to come. If they were good men, they needed me less if they were bad, they needed me more. But, either way, I was responsible for my own testimony, and for nothing more and this was not lent to Mr. Parker, but to the audience. Yet, whenever Theodore Parker does what is right and noble, if it were possible for me to lend him any thing, I would do it gladly.

I have nothing to lend, however, but good will, and that I never lend, but give free as God's air But, it will be asked, will the public understand your position, and, however you may design it, will not the impression go abroad, either that you sympathize with infidel views, or are indifferent to them? No. The public are jost the ones who will not misunderstand. There is? formed and forming a moral judgment in the Intelligent part of the community that popular Christianity needs more love in it. Men at large will be a great deal more apt to say that I have done a more exemplary Christian act, in daring to avow an ethical sympathy with Theodore Parker, between whom and myself there exists an irreconcileable theological difference, than if I had bombarded him for a whole year, and refused to touch his hand What a pitiful thing it is to see men who have the chance of saying what they believe, who do say it two hundred timea a year, who write it, sing it, speak it, and fight it who, by all their social affinities, by all their life-work, by all positive and most solemn testimonies, are placed beyond misconception, always nervous lest they should sit down with somebody, or speak with somebody, or touch somebody, and so lose an immaculate reputation for soundness Therefore men peep out from their systems as prisoners in jail peep it of iron-barred. windows, but dare not come out, for fear some sharp sheriff of the Faith should arrest them If we held Theodore Parker's views, we should not wait to have it inferred.

Men would hear it from our lips, and hear it past all mistaking. And we are not going at our time of life to begin to watch over our 4 influence to cut and trim our sentences lest some mousing critic should pounce upon an infelicity, and draw upon us a suspicion. We have never sought influence, and we never shall seek it. Any that we have now, came to us because we went straight forward, doing whatever was right, and always believing that a loving heart was a better judge of what was right than a cold and accurate head. Neither is infallible.

Both make mistakes. But the errors of the heart dissolve in the kindness of men's natures as snow-flakes dissolve in warm-bosomed lakes, while the errors of cold intellect pierce and stick like arrows. If I cannot make my people understand my belief in fifty-two Sabbaths of the year, I shall not mend the matter by refusing to follow the generous sympathies of my heart. No. The common people will not misunderstand.

Nor will practical Christian ministers. They may differ from my judgment, but they will understand my deed. It is only those professed defenders of the faith, who, having erected suspicion into a Christian grace, practise slander as a Christian duty, that will be liable to mistake. And it makes no difference whether such men understand or not. These men are like aspen trees growing on rocks.

In conceit and arrogance they are hard as granite, while they tremble all over like aspen leaves with perpetual fears and apprehensions of dismal mischief to come When Theodore Parker appears in his representative character as a theologian, I am as irreconcilably opposed to him as it is possible to be. The things that are dear to him, are cheerless and unspeakably solitary and mournful to me. The things which are the very centre of my life, the inspiration of my existence, the glory of my thought, and the strength of my ministry, are to him but very little. I differ from him in fact, in theory, in statement, in doctrine, in system, in hope and expectation, living or dying, laboring or resting, in theology we are separate, and irreconcilable. Could Theodore Parker worship my God Christ Jesus is his name.

All that there is of God to me is bound up in that name. A dim and shadowy effluence rises from Christ, and that I am taught to call the Father. A yet more tenuous and invisible film of thought arises, and that is the Holy Spirit. But neither are to me aught tangible, restful, accessible. They are to be revealed to my knowledge hereafter, but now only to my faith.

But Christ 6tands my manifest God. All that I know is of him, and in him. I put my soul into his arms, as, when I was born, my father put me into my mother's arms. I draw all my life from him. I bear him in my thoughts hourly, as I humbly believe that lie also bears me.

For I do truly believe that we love each other I a speck, a particle, a nothing, only a mere beginning of something that is gloriously yet to be when the warmth of God's bosom shall have been a summer for my growth and He, the Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace And this Redeemer of the world, the Saviour of sinners, I accept, not only as my guide, my friend, my deliverer, but aa an atoning God, who bore my sins upon the Cross, and delivered me from their rsnalty. And, since my life is spared to me by him, give to him that life again. This hope of Christ is the staff of my. ministry. First, highest, and in measure beyond all other things, I preach Jesus I Christ.

And all other topics are but arrows, shot out of this Divine bow. And this has been so for twenty years, eleven of which I have labored in Brooklyn. And yet The Examiner is pleased to reproach me, aS if, against the sweep of my life, and the current and testimony of my being, I bad gone to Boston to give eclat to an infidel because I gladly helped men who do not agree with me in theology to do deeds of mercy in which all good men are united What must be the condition of the public mind, on the subject of Christian charity, when the simple co-operation of a man, on a ground of common benevolence, is made to signify more than his whole regular life-work? The disposition to find some common ground of kindness and benevolent work, with those from whom we are known to differ, will be a real preaching of the Gospel to tens of thousands who are unmoved by dogmas or doctrines. It is Love that the world wants. When Love goes abroad in the full worth of its nature, and endures and suffers, without reward except the sweetness of suffering borne for another, then men begin to see what is the heart and spirit of Christ, and to have some motions toward faith in him If tears could wash away from Parker's eyes the hindrances, that he might behold Christ as I be hold and adore him, I would shed them without re serve.

If prayers could brine to him this vision of glory, beyond eight of philosophy, I would for him besiege the audience chamber ot Heaven with an cndkss procession of prayers, until another voice sounding forth from another light brighter than the noon day sun, should cast down another bunded man, to be lifted up an apostle with inspired vision But since I may not hope so to prevail, I at least will carry him in my heart, I will cordially work with him when 1 can, and be heartily sorry when ever I cannot. While we yet write, word comes that Mr. Parker, broken down by over labor, seeks rest and restora tion in a warmer clime. Should these lines reach his eye, let him know that one heart at least remem bers his fidelity to man, in great public exigencies, when so many swerved, of whom we bad a right to expect better things. God shield him from the ocean, the storm, the pestilence and heal him of lurking disease.

And there shall be one Christian who will daily speak his name to the heart of God in earnest prayer, that with health of body he may receive upon his soul the greatest gut ot faith in Jesus Christ as the Divine baviour of the world. SB. CHEEVEH AND HIS CHTJBCH. To the Editor of the N. Y.

Tribune: Sir A statement has been copied into some of the city papers for the last day or two, taken from the New lork correspondence of a Boston journal, to the effect that the Church of the Puritans is in a roost dilapidated and forlorn condition, and that Dr. Cbeever has resigned his pastoral charge. Perhaps no better reply can be made to so false ana malicious a caiumny man a Driei report ot ine occurrences of last evening at the house of Mr. D. Fairbank.

The occasion was a congregational social gathering, when the members of this disorganized and de-caving church and society collected in sufficient numbers, in spite of the weather, to fill the large parlors to overflowing. At about 8 1-2 the host, Mr. Fairbank, requested the assembly to come to order, as there was a little business to be transacted, and moved, that to have all things done decently and in order, Mr. Thomas S. Berry should take the chair, which ho did, with a few appropriate remarks, saying that the Clei-k of the Church would more fully explain the objects of the meeting.

The Clerk, Mr. Benj. K. Phelps, then addressed the Rev. Dr.

Cheevcr as follows Ds. Che ever Permit us, your friends and parish i oners, to tender you our hearty love and our warmest wishes for your prosperity and happiness during the year isa'J. Uur relations during the year that has passed have been marked by events of no ordinary Assailed by foes from without and disturbers from within, out trials have indeed been unusual and severe. But they have not dimmed our faith in God, nor shaken our confidence in each other. The chain which binds us in the sacred relations of pastor and people has been but brightened and strengthened by the efforts made to break it.

We are here to-night to express our mutual confidence and love, and to thank God for the mercies, undeserved and precious, that have changed our greatest trials to our brightest blessings, and crowned the year with so much goodness. We are here, too, Sir, to bid you persevere, as you always have done, in the fearless and full discharge of the duties of your sacred office. We rejoice that we have a pastor who preaches against our sins and the nation's sins, and, God willing, we mean to keep him. Our hearts, our hopes, our sympathies and prayers, are trith you. No faintheartedness on our part shall dim tho light of God's word as it flashes from your lips.

Freedom shall never be driven from your pulpit, nor from our pews. Our faith is strong, our courage firm. We have no fear for the future, if we can but keep near to God, and walk by the counsels of His Word. And, Sir, we hope anl trust that this trial, which has been turned into so great a victory for us, has not been for our good alone. We believe that, bv it.

other churches will be led to cast off the fetters of a timid conservatism. Other pastors shall catch the inspiration of vour example, until the world shall learn that God's truth must not and cannot be restrained. For that end we pray. In that hope we praise God for your courage, and give thanks for your success. Cheerfully and hopefully we look forward to a long continuance of our union here as pastor and people We know that you are reported to have resigned your charge.

That is not the first, nor will it be the last, slander aimed at you and us. We know how to estimate them. And now, Sir, we hope that you, who never have yielded to the assaults of your enemies, will so far submit to the persecution of your friends as to receive at their hands this purse of one thousand dollars, as a slight mark of our affection, confidence and esteem. Each dollar there is the material embodiment of an earnest wish for your continued welfare and happiness. Accept it, Sir, as the willing offering of our love, and may the God of Love bless you and us with the light of his presence and the joy of his salvation.

The clerk then delivered to Dr. Cheever the purse of one thousand dollars. The Doctor, on receiving it, was evidently overcome by his feelings. lie briefly expressed his gratitude for the kindness and sympathy of his dear people, and after reading a few appropriate passages of Scripture, called upon the pastor of the Tabernacle Church. Dr.

Thompson spoke as follows About eight years since, a commercial journal of this city advised the churches to get rid of preachers of treason and rebellion by starving them It pointed particularly at four ministers who bad openly taken ground against Xhe Fugitive Slave Law as an inhuman statute. Let us see how the starvation policy has succeeded. Last week occurred the annual renting of pews in Plymouth Church, whose pastor was one of the denounced revolutionists and traitors. The round rental of his pews for the current year was $25,000 there is starvation for you. Since the journal aforesaid s-unded its alarm, the Church of tho Pilgrims, Brooklyn, whose pastor was named in the category, has paid off the whole of its original debt, and just before New Year, at the suggestion of its pastor, paid off a second debt of $17,000 contracted for repairing and beautifying the edifice.

When last I saw the pastor of that church, he appeared to be in comfortable health. Of the Tabernacle church it becomes me to speak with modesty. I will only say that in the fourteen years of my pastorate, I have never seen the church and congregation more compact, harmonious, hearty, Vigorous, earnest, hopeful, promising, than they are beside always paying their minister's salary promptly, they recently gave him a bag of this same yellow provender to keep him from starvation. And now you have entered into a conspiracy to give further aid and comfort to this prince uf all treason Somehow the breed of preachers who testify against the sins of the people is hard to kill. wn't starve.

Our brother here is a living witness. If you cut off all the corn and wine of the land, and empty or seal up the flesh-pots of Egypt, some widow will open her unfailing cruse, her replenished meal, and give sustenance to the prophet of the Lord. Or if he is driven to hide himself in the caves of the Brook Cherith, the ravens bring him daily bread. The Lord will keep alive whom he would use for his service, and he will use whoever serves him with the whole heart, and delivers all his truth. I congratulate you, my brother, upon this hour of favor and rejoicing, and this manifestation of esteem land affection.

-You have had trials, and you know how sweet itiain adversity to nd sympathy and friendship. But it is even morettaT5 joy prosperity without provoking ekr7-T10 sure no one will envy you the favor of th but all your brethren will rejoice that ivH cent gift boa come into your hands only of those most nearly allied to y0 foil11' try, but of others who honor you in work. I have a special message to tod rtl' wnom we a ii esteem and love who. barbed um we an esteem and love who laTin to be bold and manly for the urht the mantle of that son cau twice boid Olid earnest in his own work' Ik. parted from him, and when I told him It J1 here, he said Tell Dr.

Cheever ifV just as glad cf it as if he had rerriWi dollars himself. Dr. Cheever is one of (v! who stand up to their conviction he has kicks than coppers for it I am .14 have the coppers he But do not imagine, my worthy brother i gift betokens exemption from trial. Tfce ous temptations of riches coming lowly path of a minister may prove a You may find it harder to carry than you would to march to the some moods in which I have seen tou." Besides, I see danger looming fn our ratL Chairman has hinted at the salvation of tUr through your instrumentality. Now th Federal authority has assured us, in his his Pittsburgh letter, that the present oWIS Union are two, via.

agitation, upon the Slavery, and bribery and corruption in r-aUie And since we here see the agitator bribe, both evils joined in one, I shall fnlrtiu I wake to-morrow morning, to see the frost, dissolved. nwn'rft wn. tkj il am relieved, however, on one point. xit veracious New York correspondent irho Jf? scraps of falsehood and lander to a Boston has announced that you have resigned vour dS? It seems, however, that you are only railed be resigned to this new and peculiar dispenaa Providence which meets you with theopeaiErL May His blm.iDg attend and crown the rift tiju us look to Him with reverence, gratitude aaj fc After prayer by the Rev. Dr.

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