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THE CHRISTIAN BANNER. Opposed to Secret Societies. Fortnightly, at $1 a year. Geo. A. Cook, publisher, 88 La Salle street, Chicago, Ill..

The convention against secret societies, held in Pittsburgh, May last, made arrangements for establishing a paper to advocate its cause. The first number is on our table. We hope the Christian public will sustain it. So long as the church persistently refuses to perform its duty and exclude from communion all members of secret oath-bound associations, the press must be employed to enlighten the community, to create a healthy public sentiment, that will compel the different denominations to take action on this great and growing evil.

The independent character of the journal may be inferred from the position it takes on the suspension of G. H. Stuart. In reply to those papers which unqualifiedly condemn the Synod, it remarks," 1st. Mr. Stuart well knew what the rules of the church were, and could have withdrawn if he disapproved of them. 2d. The principle on which they justify and canonize Mr. Stuart, will justify any church member who has become more liberal than his church, in setting his brethren at defiance, and treating his church with contempt. It is to be hoped Mr. Stuart will, by penitence and confession, be restored to his church; then, if he dislikes their rules, withdraw like a Christian, instead of defying his church because it is numerically weak, in which there is neither piety nor honor." That sounds like common sense.

THE MISSIONARY TRUMPET and Sabbath School Teachers and Scholars' Assistant. W. S. Rentoul, editor, 451 Walnut street, Philadelphia.

This magazine is devoted to missions-not of any one church in particular, but of all. A summary is given in each number of what has been reported by the different missionaries of the different denominations. A department in it is for the aid of Sabbath school teachers and scholars. In the form of questions and answers, a passage of Scripture is explained. The magazine is conducted with ability. THE BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW. Edited by Charles Hodge. Peter Walker, publisher, 821 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Price $3 per annum. The Princeton Review needs no recommendation, Those of our subscribers who take it know its value. The contents of the present number are-The Trial of the Rev. Wm. Tennent, Social Liberty, Professor Fisher on the Princeton Review and Dr. Taylor's Theology, Ireland, its Church and the Land, The General Assembly, The Protest and Answers.

We have received the following: Rentoul's Cheap Library of Standard Bible Expositors for June and July, 1868; Sixth Annual Report of the Y. M. Christian Association of the City of New York, 1867-68; Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Geneva Hall, Northwood, Logan county, Ohio, 1867-68; Sixth Annual Report of the Directors and Treasurer of the General Theological Library, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Corporation in Boston, April 20th, 1868; the Proceedings of a Convention held in Pfoutz's Valley, Pa., April 23, 1868, at which Dr. R. A. Simpson of Liverpool, Pa., was nominated for President of the United States, and Robert D. Eldridge, Esq., of Baltimore, Md., for Vice President, and the following platform adopted: "In our national and civil capacities, we take God for our Sovereign, and the Lord Jesus Christ as our Redeemer ;

as he went about doing good when on earth, so we put our trust in him, and endeavor to follow his example, and have it inscribed on our banner, knowing that 'many are the devices of man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.' Take the open Bible, which contains man's moral code of laws and testimony, above all human enactments, and the teachings of its holy precepts are the only true guide for legislators, statesmen, rulers and people, securing to all their religious, political, moral, spiritual and temporal welfare; the teachings of the Bible are those of true patriotism, industry, honesty, learning, and every good work. By putting these living principles into the national laws and constitution, and carrying them into practice, the government can be reconstructed from ruin and misery to peace and prosperity, and made one of the crowning glories of earth. And to these principles and men we pledge our lives, fortunes and sacred honor."

Books sent for notice by Presbyterian and United Presbyterian Boards of Publication, and by R. Carter & Bros., will be noticed in

next uumber.

Notices, &c.

CORRECTION-In the list of members of Synod sent for publication, the name of Rev. R. B. Cannon was omitted, and so does not appear in the published minutes. Mr. Cannon was present during all the sessions of Synod.

The blanks in the report of the Committee on the Signs of the Times were not correctly filled when handed to us for publication. The last Thursday of November, 1868, was appointed as the day of Thanksgiving-not Fasting, as published; and the Thursday after the first Sabbath of January, as the day of Fasting-not Thanksgiving.

In the statistics of Brookland Congregation, the decrease is 4 by dismission, not, as published, by censure.

TITLES CONFERRED.-The title of D. D. has been conferred on Rev. R. B. Cannon, by.the University of Iowa, and on Rev. J. M. M'Donald, by Monmouth College.

Clerks of Presbyteries will please send for publication, proceedings . immediately after meeting.

·DAYS FOR COLLECTIONS.-The following are the days appointed in 1867 for the taking up collections for the different funds:

For Church Extension, 1st Sab. of July.

"Board of Education,

"Literary Fund,

"Foreign Mission,

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PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSION.

THE Commission to present calls to Mr. Black, met. Calls from Conococheague, Lisbon, Oil City, Old Bethel and Rehoboth, were presented, but declined. A unanimous call from Clarksburg Congregation, in favor of Mr. Black, not having as yet been sustained as regular by Presbytery, was not presented.

June 8th, Utica Congregation, Rev. J. C. Boyd, $10.00, Princeton Congation, C. Allen, $6.25. July 10th, Second Philadelphia Congregation, W. Walker, $40.00.

Correction. In the June number Cincinnati is credited with $50.00
-it should have been $60.00.
JAMES BROWN, Treasurer.
Box 2595, Cincinnati.

WE have received too late for insertion in the magazine, a "Notice to Theological Students," from the Secretary of the Board of Inspectors of the Seminary, in which it is stated that the offer of those bursaries for which examinations were to have been held at the opening of the Seminary, is, for the present, withdrawn.

With the next number we will commence to use Dick's Patent Mailing Machine. This will obviate the necessity for publishing on the cover an acknowledgment of money received. Each subscriber will find annexed to his name the time to which his subscription extends. We request all who desire to have their P. O. address changed, to notify us immediately. Subscribers in Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Allegheny will hereafter receive their numbers by mail. We request them immediately to forward, each, his or her address, the street and number. Subscribers at Wilkinsburg and Union will also receive their numbers by mail.

NEW CASTLE HIGH SHOOL.

A SCIENTIFIC and Classical Institute for young ladies and for students preparing for the advanced College classes.

The Academic Year will begin on Wednesday, September 2d, 1868.
For full information send for a circular.

Address the Principal, New Castle, Pa.

WE again state, no magazine will reach friends across the water without prepayment of six cents. The magazines which have on only a two

cent stamp, are returned to us.

PITTSBURGH Presbytery will meet in Allegheny on the 2d Tuesday of October, 71⁄2 P. M. Sermons-specimens of improvement-will be delivered by the students.

THE address of Rev. A. C. Todd is Ayer's Point, Washington county, Illinois-not as before, Elkhorn, Illinois.

ОнIо Presbytery will meet at New Concord, 1st Wednesday of October, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Rev. A. M'Farland to preach the opening

sermon.

A note from the Clerk of Synod, making corrections, too late for insertion in this namber, will appear in our next.

We have on hand nearly two dozen of Obituaries. They will appear as soon as possible.

All letters relating to the financial affairs of the magazine to be sent to J. W. Sproull, M'Keesport, Allegheny county, Pa.

TERMS.

1. The numbers will be issued monthly, as heretofore.

2. The price is $1.00 per annum, payable on the delivery of the fourth number.

3. Any person procuring five subscribers and paying when due, shall be entitled to an extra copy.

4. Subscribers who do not notify their discontinuance at least one month before the close of the year, will be considered as continuing.

5. No discontinuance till arrearages are all paid up.

NOTICE.-Communications, &c., to be addressed to the Editor, Alle

gheny P. O.

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July 25th, received from Clarinda Congregation, Iowa, per
M'Keown, $15 83. August 11th, from Joseph Steel, of Third Cong
n, Philadelphia, per Rev. R. J. Sharp, $25.00, Fannie Smith, Alleg
S. O. Wylie, $5,00; 19th, Topsham Congregation, Vt.,
David Lang, $30.00; 20th, from the Sabbath school of Brooklyn
gregation, N. Y., for educating a girl at our Syrian Mission, per
E. B. Taylor, Treasurer, $10.00.
WILLIAM BROWN, Treasurer, 1635 Locust stre

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.

FROM the low state of this Fund, I am compelled to make sale considerable amount of our invested securities, to meet the coming months' salaries of the Missionaries in Syria. W. BROWN, Trea

RECEIPTS FOR SOUTHERN MISSIONS.

June 8, Mrs. Margaret Corry, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, $2.00; 10th, W. bron, per Rev. W. Wilkin, $9.00, Crawford Missionary Society, Ba timore Congregation $21.00, Kortright Congregation, N. Y., $22.15, S. Crow, Xenia, Ohio, $1.00, Ramsey Congregation, C. W., $23.0 16th, Southfield Congregation paid to Rev. J. M. Johnston, per Rev. S. T. M., $30.45. July 1st, Warsaw branch, Salem Congregation. Rev. A. M. Milligan, $6.00, Sandy branch of the same, $20.00; 15 Ryegate and Barnet Mite Society, per Dr. Sproull, $21.01. $155.61. DANIEL EUWER, Treasurer.

1868. May 25th, David Crow $3 00, James Downey 30 cents. Ju 4th, Martin Adams $3.00, Rev. J. O. Baylis $1.20; 6th, Walton Co gregation $25.00, Bovina Congregation $20.00, J. Curling $3 50, MoLor gabela Congregation $25.00; 9th, John Taylor $1.00, Miss E. Reynold $1.50; 10th, Mrs. Catharine Wilson $10.00, collected by Rev. J M'Crack in $9.00; 12 th, collected by Rev. D. S. Faris $36.30, C. Orr, S. Ellio and A. Orr $5.40, J. Carson, Jr., $2.00, Muskingum Congregation, per J. Beattie $3.00. July 1st, James Boggs, $3.00, D. B. Wil-on, Licenti ate, $5.00, gold coupons $297.00 premium $118.80; 17th, Olathe Congre gation per Rev. W. W. M'Millan, $18.50. Aug. 12 h, James Best $4.50 Acheson Bequest, per W. Brown, $125,00, from Urbana, per mail, $10.00.

1868. June 4th, Bequest of George Spence $1000.00; 6th, David Dill $50.00; 10th, John N. M'Calvey, Utica, $5.00. Aug. 12th, Samuel Carry, per Faris, $26.35. April 17th, Tfird Congregation, New York, should be Second Congregation, New York, Rev. A. Stevenson, D. D., $211. 31. D. GREGG, Treasurer, No. 99 Wood street, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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