rarely, if ever, equalled, and cannot be excelled on earth.

Remembering, too, that this was in Pittsburg, which had witnessed such scenes of conflict in the days of bitter controversy, it was all the more notable and joyous. The healing was to be measured by the depth of the wound, the joy of 1870 by the sorrow of 1837. It was no such absurdity as an empirical pronouncing that there never had been any wound, nor any departure. But it was a pronouncement of a healthy knitting together, and of a sound recovery.

Christianity has her most august triumph in Christian conciliation, on the platform of Christian truth, and for united Christian service. "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." There may be mistakes and shortcomings in all these transactions, but harmony, and not strife, concord, and not discord, union, and not separation, are in the Divine programme for the Church's future. And if the world inquires of the watchman, "What of the night?" we will answer, "THE MORNING COMETH and also the night." If ye will inquire, inquire ye! Return! Come!

The Commissioners, in large companies, took the evening trains of Friday for their homes. But there was yet another service for those who remained. It was a public meeting in the interest of Foreign Missions. It was held in the Third Church. The Assemblage was very crowded, and interested. There seemed a special fitness in the arrangement by which the Jubilee was ushered in by a convocation for Home Missions, and followed up by a stirring convention for Foreign Missions, as the two grand departments of Church enter

prise, which this united host has sworn together to push forward to the noblest results, with God's blessing, for the evangelizing of the world.

It was necessary, for legal purposes, that the next As sembly should meet in Pennsylvania. And the city of Brotherly Love, the traditional seat of Presbyterianism in the land, had its prior claim. And so also it was or dered, in God's Providence, that the first meeting in General Assembly of the Reunited Church should be in the same house where the disruption first became a pronounced and public fact, by the meeting there of a separate Assembly that the coming together in peace of the two Assemblies should take place where the protesting Assembly met a generation ago— nay, more, that it should be in the same First Church, on Washington Square, where Albert Barnes had so long labored before and since the disruption with which his name was so prominently connected.

So the ends of history meet, and make God's circles, every way fitting and complete for the admiration of the world, and for an exhibition to the universe of the wisdom of God. And this Reunion in Philadelphia would be all the more remarkable in view of the fact, that when the two Assemblies last met, in that city, in 1846, an overture from the New School for a joint communion was rejected— formally for lack of precedent, but really for lack of the conditions precedent, the mutual confidence and love; which conditions were now happily fulfilled. If any ask, like Nicodemus, "How can these things be?" the only answer is figured forth by the Master, in the wind that bloweth where it listeth, and makes itself known by its effects, as an emblem of the renewing, reviving spirit of God. LAUS DEO!

ADDITIONAL IMPRESSIONS.

BY THE REV. P. H. FOWLER, D.D.

Fears of Some

The Hand of God in the Reunion. Disinterested Motives. in both Schools. Final Confidence. Glad Emotions at the Result reached by the Conference Committee. The Silent Prayer. The Vote. The Hymn of Thanksgiving. The Joyful Reassembling at Pittsburgh —- Sentiment of Responsibility attending the Consummated Union. The Key-Note given to the Reunited Church.

THE reunion of the two branches of the Church so far transcended every other subject before the Assemblies of May and November, 1869, and the two bodies were so homogeneous, that an account of either is in all essential respects an account of the other. It was presumed that the narrative of Dr. Jacobus might leave something to be supplied by one who was present in the New School Assembly; but it is so comprehensive that any addition to it is almost superfluous.

God is in history, and conspicuously does he appear in the event now so happily consummated. The train for it was laid so independently of human agency, progress towards it was made to such an extent without visible means, formidable difficulties so frequently retired as it was approached, and it was finally reached with such unanimity and cordiality in so brief a space, after bitter alienation, that it cannot be explained except on the supposition of a special Divine interposition. "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory." And giving God the glory, we take encouragement for the future. A guaranty of good to