yield to that humiliating feeling called shame. It would be derogatory to our reputation as a people professing Christian liberality, were it not for two reasons, which we shall now name. A majority of our churches are absolutely without meeting-houses, or in meeting-houses behind the age, and the growth of the churches. This is the case with us at Bethany. We have aided sundry infant and weak churches to erect houses, and are now, in common with very many of our communities, endeavoring to raise a house equal to our wants. The second reason is, that no one, in a great majority of our churches, has assumed, in good earnest, the work of raising this small contribution, and brethren do not generally create an officer for the express purpose of soliciting them to give money. Hence, unless the elders of the churches urge the matter, it cannot be accomplished. Whenever the proper officers employ the proper means, it will be done. The brethren, by thousands and tens of thousands, would give their twenty-five cents each, to erect one large and commodious house of worship at the very attractive and radiating centre of this great nation. We ought to have the largest meeting-house in Washington City, and there, also, a stationed advocate of the great cause we plead; a master spirit, that would neither be ashamed of himself nor a shame to others—to stand up in the presence of Kings and earth's nobility, and proclaim the Unknown Gospel, as Paul did the Unknown God, in a city which had more temples than palaces, and more gods than men. Forty thousand dollars would be a moderate offering from so great a people, for so great a cause, at so grand a point as the capital of this New World.

We do not want wealth, nor do we want liberality. We only want to put them in motion, or call them into action; and some one master spirit in every community, that will make a personal appeal to the second class, the third class, and even to the fourth class of liberals.

The first class will, on hearing of the grandeur of the object, present their own offerings. Ancient Kings were generally Priests; and earth's noblemen generally have so much of the Priest, or its grand import, as to embolden them to contribute, or make their own offerings, without any solicitation.

If the few noble-minded brethren at Washington, would only allow a monopoly in this grand scheme, or allow a company of brethren-say of one, two, or three hundred persons-to have the exclusive privilege of taking stock in this branch-bank of Heaven, I, indeed, would be glad to be one of a hundred, rather one of

three hundred brethren, who would take four hundred shares each, of the scheme now before the people. But I do not desire to monopolize such riches or such honor; and unless there were such a company formed, I would prefer the present scheme, because the stockholders in Heaven's grand Saving's Bank would be more numerous, and the glory and honor would be more reciprocal, and the pleasure more enhanced, by the number and variety of the participants. Will the brethren remember this grand and urgent call upon their interests and honor, and show how much they prefer the stocks in the rich and unfailing Bank of Heaven, and thus enrich many by enriching themselves? A. C.

REV. N. L. RICE, D. D.

THIS gentleman, notwithstanding all that I have done to promote him to honor, as if conscious that his position was a mere ecclesiastico-political measure, still feeling that he is unworthy of it, and endeavoring to do more good service to reward the church that has so gratuitously honored him, will condescend from his lofty station to gather up and endorse any fable, however ridiculous and absurd, that might be regarded as doing service to his church, however it might indicate & rankling hostility or virulence of feeling towards myself.

On my late visit to Zanesville, I learned that he had endorsed, as worthy of all credit, a reported dialogue held by one of his clerical brethren and myself, in Belmont county, Ohio, only forty years ago, touching my ministerial ordination. I saw only a part of the article, it being defaced; and on taxing my recollections, I could only gather so much as that I spent an evening with a clergyman, some where in said county, about that time, and that I never was, in all my pilgrimage, treated with the same rudeness and incivility, by any clergyman of any denomination, which I in part attributed to the evident embarrassment and confusion of the gentleman. The gentlemen with me remarked, that they had not witnessed the like before, and were as much astounded at his rudeness as myself.

From Mr. Rice's own showing, the gentleman acted the boor in his own house, while I am made to speak and act like a simpleton or child; much more than as a young man of more than one and twenty years. Indeed, my memory reacheth not back to a time

when I could have spoken and acted as this nameless Reverend setteth forth, as endorsed by his worthy Bro. Rice, D. D.

I am made to assume a false position and a false fact, respecting my ordination, and then to fail, most signally, in defending it; and, still worse, to speak and act like a clown. It is not a fact that I was ordained by my father alone, or by one minister, and, therefore, I never did defend that system. This stultifies all that he makes me say. I was ordained on the license of a congregation, and, by their request, by the imposition of the hands of a presbytery—a plurality of ordained ministers—and therefore, ecclesiastically, have as much authority as the Rev. N. L. Rice, D. D., or his Belmont brother.

But the Lord takes the wise in their own craftiness; and these two Reverend gentlemen, between them, have so outraged the facts of this interview, and have manufactured a conversation so ridiculous and suicidal, between a big child and a Reverend clergyman, that no one who knew me forty years ago, or at any period since, can believe it; and with all the frailties, moral or physical, of the Presbyterian of the West," I candidly confess my conviction, that Mr. Rice himself does not, cannot, and never will believe it. A. C.

UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES, &c., IN GREAT BRITAIN.

In England, besides the University of Oxford, which has 24 colleges, (each having its head or rector,) and 35 professors; and the University of Cambridge, which has 17 colleges, (each having its head,) and 24 professors, there are 9 colleges, having in their various departments 160 professors. In Scotland, there are 4 Universities, including 7 colleges, and having 110 professors, lecturers, etc. In Ireland, there is Dublin University, having 25 professors; the College of St. Patrick, at Maynooth, with 13 professors; and a collegiate institution at Belfast, having 10 academical, and 7 medical professors. The endowments of the University at Oxford are about $700,000, and those of the University of Cambridge about $550,000 per annum. And in addition to this, the colleges of Oxford have within their patronage 468 livings, the annual value of which is $390,000; and the colleges of Cambridge 313 livings, valued at $469,500 per annum. On the 1st of January, 1849, the number of attendants on the books of the various colleges of Oxford, was 5,890; members of the convocation, 3,190. On the books of the colleges of Cambridge, 6,906; members of the convocation, 3,786.

NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.

MISSOURI.-Bro. Thomas Pitt informs us that about 70 were added to the church at New London, a short time since.Bro. S. Swinford, writing from Pleasant Hall, says that Bro. Wilmot had immersed 8 persons in the neighborhood of that place, and Bro. Wright, of Lexington, 3 more; 1 was reclaimed, and 5 received by letter.- -Bro. Morton, writing from Hannibal, under date of April 22d, says: Within the last three months we have had between 25 and 30 additions to our congregation.

OHIO.-Bro. James Porter, of New Philadelphia, gives us an interesting account of his successful labors. He is subject to occasional severe attacks of physical disease, on account of which we sympathize with him; yet he is not deterred from laboring in the cause of our Master. At Stillwater, he has recently immersed 3 persons, and at Nottingham 12; 5 others, who had been previously baptized, were received into fellowship. On Wills Creek he has baptized 16, and procured the appointment of an eldership. WISCONSIN.-Bro. C. A. Mills gives us further particulars of the labors of Bro. L. J. Correll, about Hazel Green. In addition to the 25 reported last month, some 35 or 40 have since been added; some from the Methodists, some from other denominations, but mostly from the world.

MISSISSIPPI.-Bro. E. H. Baker, of Middleton, says they have, within the last six months, gathered a little church of 17, with fair prospects for an increase. They meet every Lord's day and attend to their own duties, and, what is worthy of all praise, "let others alone!" They have no minister.

TEXAS.-Dr. M'Call sends us news from Texas. Within the last three months they have had some 50 odd additions. Recently, he and Bro. Strickland, formerly of Arkansas, held a meeting, at which they immersed 8, and constituted a church of 28.

TENNESSEE.-Bro. S. B. Aden, writes: Our beloved brother, H. T. Anderson, of Louisville, Ky., has recently paid us a visit. He spent nine days; delivered some thirteen discourses, in his usually clear and argumentative style, and 9 were added to the Lord. We trust much of the good seed sown may yet spring up and bring forth abundantly.

CANADA WEST.-We extract the following from a letter by Bro. James Black, of Eramosa: "Mr. Burchart, the celebrated American revivalist, visited Canada last winter, and created great religious excitement at Bow. manville, where there is a church of Disciples. He found that the influence of their teaching was so far in his way as to make it necessary for him to "expose Campbellism," in which he did great injustice to our views. Daniel Stewart happened to be there and hear him, and, with characteristic zeal and perseverance, urged that justice should be done to Bro. Campbell and the cause of truth which he pleads. The result was, that all the manœuvering and trickery of the revivalist and his friends, to evade his just demand, were perceived by the community, and a very favorable opportunity was afforded to present the gospel to them. Bro. Kilgour was sent for, and by their labors 30 or more were added to the church."

MT. JACKSON, Pa., May 8, 1851. Brother Campbell: A meeting of ten days, commencing on the last day of February, was held at the Centre of Fowler, Trumbull county, O., by Bro. Calvin Smith, in company with myself, which resulted in the addition of 15 persons by immersion, and 2 immersed members of the Congregationalists united with us. A congregation of Disciples was then and there organized, consisting of 32 members. Bro. Wilson Porter and Milo Dugan were chosen elders.

I was present, also, on the 22d of March, in company with Bro. C. Smith, at the organization of a congregation of Disciples in Meta township,

Trumbull county, O. Bros. D. Hossiford and S. N. Jones, were chosen elders. Fourteen persons pledged themselves to the Lord, and to each other, to assemble together as a congregation of Disciples, and endeavor to "walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." Two of these came from the Methodists and two from the Free Will Baptists. Since that time, ten, formerly Disciples, have united there. May the Lord prosper his cause! The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Yours, J. T. PHILLIPS.

SPRING MILLS, Pa., April 22, 1851.

• My youngest son, my brother and his wife, were lately immersed. We have had some accessions lately of weight of character. Amongst these is the only single daughter of Ex-Governor Ritner. The old gentleman conducted his daughter some five miles to my residence, and attended to her, on the occasion of her immersion, in a fatherly manner.

JOHN LEFEVER.

[My old friend Gov. Ritner, with whom I have had the pleasure of a very intimate acquaintance of many years' standing, has, on this occasion, done himself great honor. His large and comprehensive mind, so well filled with political learning, and whose services as a statesman, both in the legislative and executive departments of the government of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have been charaterized by great ability, is also well furnished with Christian knowledge, having frequently attended our ministrations for many years. It would greatly promote his happiness, and in no respect derogate from, but rather do honor to his good sense, should he follow the example of his daughter, and bow to the sceptre of the great King. It would give me no little pleasure, from the interest I take in him, to learn that he had done both his understanding and his heart this honor. A. C.]

Total number reported since last month, 343.

OBITUARY.

Fell asleep in Christ, Sister MARY MORRISON, of Johnstown, Penn.'a, on the 20th April last. Sister Morrison, with two other sisters-all called Mary, and known as the three Marys-were the neucleus of the church at Somerset, Penn.'a, more than thirty years ago. Two of the three, Sister Ogle, Sr., and Sister Graft, of Somerset, yet survive, strong in faith and ardent in hope of the eternal inheritance. These three sisters, mothers in Israel, have greatly honored their profession. Sister Morrison was much afflicted for some years before her death, but she has found the home of health and peace eternal, in which sickness and death are never felt nor feared. It is some forty years since these sisters became Christians; and my correspondent informs me she is now in her 78th year, longing for the day of her deliverance. A. C.

Died, at New Lexington, Morgan county, Ill., on the 22d of October, 1850, Sister LUCINDA MORRISON, wife of Dr. James Morrison, in the 40th year of her age. She obeyed the gospel early in life, and was an exemplary Christian while she lived, and died in the confident expectation of a glorious resurrection to eternal life.

H.

Brother Campbell: The recent death of my mother-in-law, Mrs. MARY YATES, consort of Daniel Yates, of Utica, Hinds county, Miss., has caused great sadness and regret. A deep gloom passed at once upon the community; while a bereaved family, and the brethren in Christ, were comforted and sustained only by faith in God. Her spirit fled to the world of fruition,