least very like ours, when they wish to extend their church operations. The best and most evangelical Episcopal missionary society has as little to do with the bishops as it can. The "Union" of our valued Congregational brethren in England, or here, looks to us and we regard it only with kindly interest-like "feeling after" our method of concerted action. So, when times of revival have come, the free worship for which we have always contended becomes natural to many who declined it before, and men pray as the Spirit gives them utterance. No amount of religious earnestness, so far as we can see, will render our ma chinery useless, or our forms of worship obsolete. The current of spiritual life cannot become so deep that our system shall have no channel for it. Let millennial knowledge and peace come in, and the simple forms of our Church will well avail for the expression and culture of religious feeling. When "the people shall be all righteous," they can be safely trusted to "look out among them " men of good report for places in the Church. When mutual love is fervent, free men can meet and confer without collision of temper, or violation of the unity of the Spirit. The supremacy of God's Word, the Headship of Christ over His Church and people, the brotherhood and parity of His ministers, and His constant presence with His Church by the Holy Ghost, who energizes her effort and makes effectual the means of grace- these doctrines, for which the Presbyterian Church has ever been a witness, will not dwindle into insignificance in that coming and glorious time, when "the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and when all nations shall flow unto it" a a period of glory and blessedness into which, we believe, will extend the future of the Presbyterian Church, and a period for the speedy approach of which it is her duty and her honor to pray and labor. APPENDIX. I. STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH (OLD SCHOOL BRANCH) SINCE 1837. BY THE REV. DAVID IRVING, D.D. A GENERATION has passed away since our Church became two bands. The forces which divided it did not arrest the life and aggressive action of the two separate parts. Each gradually took up an independent position, and sought in its own way to advance the interests of the Redeemer's kingdom. Each at the outset had its own defined policy, which has either been modified or enlarged to meet new demands or a new order of things; and each has been brought, as the result of a thorough and intelligent experience, to see eye to eye, as to the best mode of conducting the work and the varied schemes of the Church. But it is only with one branch of the reunited body we have to do, and to show in figures, as far as these can express its vital forces, the things accomplished by it. Energy and an enlightened denominational zeal has marked the ecclesiastical life and history of the Old School branch. Holding to certain great principles of action before the disruption, it has steadily and with an increasing devotion maintained them since. This has not interfered with what it regarded as outside efforts. To humane and philanthropic enterprises it has given, through its local churches and individual gifts, much generous sympathy and aid, and it may be truly said that no portion of Christ's Church, according to its numerical strength, has done more for such movements than the members of the Presbyterian family in this land. A small part of what the Old School has done in this line of effort may be seen in the "Miscellaneous" column of its "Minutes," which amounts in the last three years to $1,211,654. This sum is mainly the result of congregational |