Pan ■ (Ocean Ham

VOL. XI.

GAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAY COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1865.

NO. 24;'

ffhc hurt's (fotirrrT"' »• AT 'THE I.AsSv' Thie ta-utltul !«rtn apfa-art-1 otlrln-lly In the lxDiri»UK»T. wrltlvn on the puw. "M*n garth . fifth unto hi- w«S aoU to hi* Ubor until the et enlog Thr stream to r sluiest when It nears the tide, AD4 Mr-It ».»• mii-lrsl.* cV>« «M«r, And ulutn dtvlnest when they Morning In tot fly-tut a bat er them lira folded rlosc In r\ rotojt's lot* of halm ; And weary mm muni ever love her bent, ' l or Morning colli to toll, hut Sight to lent. Oho cornea from heaven, and on her vuo doth hear j A holy fragrance, llhe the brealh of prayer; Footsteps ol angeln follow to her trace, A To chut the weary eye of Day to prate. All thlws are hnafced le fore her, an the thrown j O'er earth anv! sky her mnatle of TSpose That morning known ant, to the evening hour. "Until I be eeontol" we mutt weep awl foil, Plough Ufe't ntern furrow, dig the w eedy toll. Tread with tad feet our rough ami thorny way . And bear the heat and Uiidra of the day. * Oh • when our inn la netting may we glide. Ukotununer evening, down Iba tummer tide ; And leave behind ut at we pate away, Sweet, ttarry Iwlllghl itoad onr tlteplng .lay . ,

©tijinat itovn. j) (Written lor I he Orean Ware | RESURRECTION IX THE DEAD ROOM, Oi* tlio Club ol* Six. BT RALPH Rl'KTlC. "Joit wel a oiatrh, and rub It all over that subject's face." continued Eaton, and wheo you lower It down there in the dark, 'twill glisten like vengeance, and i frlKhten them oot of their boot*." I No aooner laid than dune. Student* never have moch mercy in playing practical Jdtes. A match t.i procured, i rubbed ronghly but with regard to effect, i onder the eyei and about thrf cheeks of t their auhject ; and they all itood imps- 1 tiently waiting from the darkaeis the ' c summon* to lower down. t In the meantime, Ralph Scndton and t » Malon Drewster 'had silently wend- d their way dowh the stairs to lb; lowef c floor. Tbeu palcing the hall-door into ; - the yard, they stood knee-deep in the I anow ; with no little difficulty thej on r locked the door leading from the yard c Into the cellar, for it wai all frozen bard t inside and out. When they bad openrd a it they passed down the ladder-like steps, i cloaed It after them, and Hood iu the t dirkueei. ' t "I never knew I possessed so much i nerve," said Bendton, breaking the »i- t lrnce, "as to venture into such a hole as 1 tblv-it'a all death and darkness !" | "A live man, five minutes in this I freely cellir, couldn't bsrm on, let alone . t dead ones," replied Brewater s Groping their way along the damp and musty walls, by the fin-leas heaters, ' i and over a labyrinth of bone* and bar- 1 rels ibry finally reached the door of the j I vault, paaaed down five atepa, and stood ' I upon the cold, damp bricks. 1 1 "Where's the hatchway door?" ani • Brewster. t '.'1 have it," answered Sendton ; and I I to speaking, ha slid hack a aide but low ' I door, which closed the lower end of the j i hatchway. As they did so, a few scant ' rays of light, jaggedly reflected down its t greasy walls from the room above, fell •l tbelr feet. It was gbmf.it ting. bow i ever, and made tbelr courage grow I again. Tha eanlt was a lower cellar, : I brisked on all sides, but not above, into j | , which the auhject* •were laid when they J •rrieed at college, and were not wanted I - for immediate use. Sendton and Brewstar fell and wended their way bark in i the darkness, nntil they came to five 1 bodies, stark and cold io death, ranged in a row slung the upper wall. Run- I (Ding their hands over thvm, iu a profrs- I sional manner, they ascertained whether i tbey were fat or muscular, good or bad. i < "Here's a splendid fellow,' cried Send- < „ ton ; "muscularas Guliah, aud withom i • particle of fat." i "Drag him out Utea," said Brewster, ■ "and I will give the word to lower " I Ho approached the door, put bis head upon the outside, and cried out: "Down . with him, boys I" , The twir-r-r-ratlle-ralUe of the pully i above, sounded painfully acnte la the atillueas below, interrupted every now j and It co by the dull, heavy thud of the 1 1 dead, man sinking the wail io his dea- 1 cent. Scarcely bad bis feet touched the brictl, when his hideous face came to view — all gleaming iu the darkness, as though the flame from the fibres I re- , • gions bad already commenced to play ♦ upon it. i I

S*bdW» 'and Brewster, already nervous, sank upon the bricks in terror, a- . ihe subject, still danglinr frdWlhe rope, gleamed upon them Tht v attempted ' to call, but their tongues were paralyzed ; . to run, bat their feet were deprived of motion They were fainting, falling anil almost dying, when a curse, a blow, sounded on the nighl sir. aind ibe.nezt ! minute the glass in one of lb-- cellar windows was shivered to fragment", and a heavy but indistinguishable object fell wiib a' groan into the cellar below, j As greatly increased hunger tnkes^ away tbe appetite, so terrors crowded j so fast upon them, that tbey tnaog^r.l j to rise, and almost mechanically craw: to the inauiuiale mass under the window. Before them, 'lay march r; behind,! ghas'lincss, and encircling them, fearful darkness. "What is it, Brewster ?" said Send-' i ton, in tones so altered thai bis 'com* i pnniou scarcely recognized them. "A man!" he replied; "murdered! lie's warm yet!" "For God's sake, let's leave this sink of terrors," said Sendlou ; "if you dou'l "We can't," said Brewster, hoarsely, but deliberately. 'Twoolii look bad if 1 ii ware found out— we were down here ; to-night, luspicion would point toward | u». .Besides, if we are to become doc- ! tors, now's the time, and here's our first 1 "post mortem." Sendton said oothitag. Courage and duty bid bim stay ; t- rror urged him to fly. But be could't desert Brewster, so he resolvrd to bravs it out like a man. "Ia he dead t" a>ked Sendton. "Yes, as dead at our auhject yonder,". : replied Brewster, but as be turned to j point, the old glaring eyes made him - wince and grow pale agaiu. "Sendton, help me to drag this fellow • over there, and we will attach bim to • the rope, and pull them both up loge- | ther." Twaa no easy job io drag the mtirdere i iuwu so fur. Their lingers were still and their bod>es" were benumbed. ; Energy anriuirouis mountains. Tbeir j resolution nerved them, and success I crowned their exertions. Tnough nei- ' ther Brcwsier or Sendton were superstitious, nei'her would touch their -old j . subject of they attached the stranger to j the rope, which they did by first tying - their handkerchiefs together, and passthem under his arms. To this frail support they Rooked thr rope, and then bound his head with Send ton's gown to ^ prevent its hung bruised in tbe ssue I escaped cunvicls-thty hastily made j their way from the (oflar, and again j stood hot and feverish 'mid the snow, j They scooped up baudfulls and ate it to . subdue iheir ibirst, and cool their ov« r- ; heated bodies Tbe town-clock striking . the hour of midnight, caused Sendlou • ' exclaim : "Hurry up Brewater, Au- | tliony will soon be upon us." Tbey had been abseut from the dia- , I secting-ruom nearly an hour. Eaton - had zone to sleep over no imaginary j j which be nsd traced ic the sand under the stove. Plutel and.Kittey wi re arguing on tbe merits and demerits of BtUadona. As Sendlou and Brewster entered the room, Kttrey turned to ask them what kept them so long, when he started j back and exclaimed : "Mercy, boys, bow pale you are; hope you aren't .sick?" "You would have been dead bad you ; went with us," said Sendtoo. Kttrey nudged 1'luset and smiled, ! doubtless thinking their scare was owing ' the pbospboretud subject. Sundry shakings, kicks and blows inflicted upon Estop, only served to make sleep more soundly, till the expedient was devised of holding a cracker I within smelling distance ol bis nose, when ha awoke in an instant, aud demanded his share They all again went I io the closet logrtbea ; took equidistant ' tattoos along the rope, aud to a be-yo- j bo sung by Eaton, palled vigorously. "What a heavy subject !" exclaimed ! Pluset ; "weight is about four hundred ; ' gueas it must have been injected wiib I mercury " "It must have eaten a large dinner . before death," amid Eaton, "and it didn't : j grt-time to digest It" Sendtoe and Brewsur said sots word, | but turned paler and pulled stronger j ! with every turn «J tbe wheel. They ' halted a moment to real, while Kilrey j went fur a light which be obtained in a j minute, and stood holding it iu such a . I position, that Its raja shone directly into 1

- the closet. One more turn brought th* •- , pair of death-breds aboVe tin* level of the floor. One combined glsnce, a cowd ering and a shriek, and the .bodies would i hasp dropped one hundred feet in a »f| pulpy ma»« below, had not a strong d hnnd seized the rope and held it like a ,'yise. t ! "What the devil are yez doln' ?" and r j the rough voice of Anthony made music d ; in the stillness. "I* this the way yez II j keep yer promises, to go home st twelve ! snil disturb nothing ?" Tim students answered oot a word. ii ; hut only pointed into the closet snd il towards the rope's burden. There, with I the gown fallen from his head and lay- . | ing like a pall around his neck, hanging , j br?jiWo breost with the half decayed f i troimiB of "their subject, hung one they i iroew grid one they loved — their chum - nnd companion, Charley McCnoley " Anthony nl*o* recognized the former member of tha class, and even he, a man ! who lived nmong the dead, who scarcely spent sis hours a week out of the disl seeling room, and to whom gnzing u(m)ii t a plump, fat subject, afforded... more do — ; light than gazing on the healthy living, , even be turned slightly psle, and trernI blt-d'perceptahly, s "Do you w»nt me to let .him drop, a* i ! you would have done ?" H^ueried. "If - not, seize buuld of the rope, nnd I will t haul him on the floor " Tbe students obeyed, and stood like I i felons holding tbeir own deaih-ropes. — ' Anthony, strong aud powerful, brought ' both the known and the unknown on the ■ floor together He gazed on them with I experienced eye ; took th« clothes from ' . McCauley , and carefully examined his » body. "These cuts on his face never i caused death," he said ; for his long con- ! tinoance among physicians had almost ' made him one of ibem ; "these tfre only ■ flesh wounds " The students had now recovered from ) their nervousness, nnd showed their alitl- - 1 ity by their promptness. '■ ' "He looks to me," said Kiin y. "'as ; though he still labored under the dread r efltcis of the Thrbaic Tincture j i j "You sre right," said Sendton. "I'll ■ ! »take my reputation, he's been drugged ■ ; first, and thrown into the cellar afierI | wards. But stop I hush, all 1 sileuce! i did he.qutver t or was it only iu imagi- ; 1 nation ?" - ■ : "He lives, by Jove I" said Brewster j I ■ Quick as thought warm blankets were i - procured ; his extremities were rubbed, - • , and artificial respiration brought to bear : I upon him - " Resurrection in the dead room, by all i i that's righteous !" exclaimed I'luset, I slowly. and empbntivally, as Eaton nd- ■ ministered some spirits to the' lips of • ' McCauley, and lie slowly opened his eves : , aud gazed aronnd'him. lj "Our club is complete, by Jingo!" ■ i said Eaton, "and we have onr supper 1 to morrow night. That's so, Johnny ■ Roach [" i j A cab was procured and McCauley ' was Underly placed wiih'in, and driven I to the llycienir Hotel, wbrrilrootns and ' ' com fort- were speedily Jiad. The «u- ■ i dents would send for no physician, neither would McCauley allow it — they hsd - rescued him, so Ibouid they attend him. L All During that, long and eventful I night, dor party took torn* "and watched ' by the bedside of ' their comrade As ' soon as his system would allow, an rmei tic of sulphate oj copper was administered, which relie-ed him of all the ef- , . fects of his poisonous portion, and Mc- : ' Canley was allowed to sink into a gentle I slumber. The early morning brought ■ Anthony, withw note-addressed to r^endi ton. He opened It, aud read to hit - companions, as follows . r "Miss Drtl Quran's rompltaronU to the Clcb or Six, sod requests tha pleasure or their company to. morrow rvrnfls, (Thursday,) at Sa-vloek " Wat Chestnut St., Dsc- ISth, 'W. 1 [ "Hooky durle I" said Eaton ; "bot I'll 1 ' bet when aba wrote that, she had no - ! thought that more than five would rej present our club." I [ "8he counted yoo s* two, perhaps," ! said Kimy. ' j 'If McCauley don't improve very fast, 1 oo moire than five will represent us," : ' said Brewster. t » • • • «. • I In a large and elegantly furnished par- , { lor, sat our heroine, Dell Qm-en With r j book in band, she sat waiting the arr rival of her guests Her Urge and bandr ; some dark eyes pawuned not its pages, » j bat were peeritf far away 'mid tha boys ' in bine of 8heridsu'a army, and wonder5 ' Ing whether bar bearit idol Is atill among B

> j them. Other ladles are, in the pallor— ' if! happy, pretty and chattering, bot she, •• heeds them not lief beaolj is waning, j d ' and her heart breaking to know if Chnra ley McCauley siill loves hvr and still g livrt. a A ri'>l« *t the door-bell ; the announcemetrt of tire "club of six," and .qrith her d , lady friends she rises, banishes mt-Un-e cholv. and gracefully awnita their cnz trance. The door opens; her heart pants e snd bents high »i bin her breast ; fn-r . face and bosom-are all aglow, ftir llirft |. stands nut fix tint one, pud he, pale and j scarred, but still manly and beautiful, h clasps her within his. arms and to bis t . i lijis Then il ia thar congrainlntions of „| dvlight are poured jipon them. »T'iij ' "club of six" stand once more complete ; r and every heart in the parlor stocll* with ! u happiness and joy. j They will j...t lull where they found r McCauley— suffice It is to Dell to know I,* ttint he is back again, and hers once , I But as the old club group in the cor- j „ ] tier together, and McCauley relates bow hn jpis ilrngguil and r-iiitred. and St'iidton and Brewater tell how tjiey found . bitn thrown down their cellur, tiu-y all grasp hands the lighter, m d thank the n ; Lord tor his rvstoratiou. | f The dance goes on, and all is mirth, I gaiety* and life; and the students frit • their profession is a sacred calling, and s their dissecting-room, after ail, the cause . of health and safety to the living , ' [tiik XKD } .Husick .tlude Ez) . « : By T. Benton, Sr., wbitch the sr. it t sinus for tingger. i s Bein diri-xtons bi whiteh enny yung perr i sun ov modderste amiability ken turn to , . j sing without a Ii via teacher, or io faekt , ! without enny 'teacher at all. Cpmmense ; ' i lurnin tu sing nrly iu liphe tn-foai you ar id j the yere mid sallow leaf »z the poet vex. IDonnt be diokurrid^l d }«» mi lit burn ov 1 i welthy pureal-, for menny a MOgger box * , bin brout up iu iodignant sircumstances. j and we doanl know wlial amy turn up enny I da amid the checkered uod crossbutd suelis ] j ov life. j Look pleasruut A- cam wtien you cing I j and dosut stretch out yotir neck like u . j Haugshiu rooster eatiu korn off (he bed ov * jlb.il, " i lioald up yure hed so ax not tu crowd ' ! the sternum ov jVr t.reslboue. Talk in a - | full inspyra-hun ov jure brell. so ux the I sound kan viberrste good. j Eat reglnr .'I limes a da if yon ken git il ; » ' snd never sleep on a full stummick — in bid •it tzxeot best to slepo on yure stumiuick at J ' alt. but lay ou yure side. I Drink ho totalksicating or spirriltuous ' linker heknx It iz apt tu iuHanre the uiu- ' couf memmur uv lliu slumuiick and kuuz DomL.gree*e yura bare with kerryscen f lie unless HZ Havorod with sum other per- , ' pbuuiery, kouz ii ixxent plezxeot tu utbers I who cing on the -ame buck with you. ., If yure shuze lerk bud enuff to wel yure : feet doanl stop up tbe hoals with bruwu I paper, kouz the wetter will be utmost sure f ; io soke thru tbe paper wud git intu yure | vbuxe and tbare will be no howl for it lu - ? j run out ov. Ware yure «hoze rites A lott a i and always set them besiile each uiber when j j you take them opb at oire, so thai wnen . | the bouse happen-' to burn dawn at rule yu ! will khough wbitch sbu lu put on wbiloii 1 fooC' When you eat pi, always coinmense al * ; the sharp end. i'lieeu dirextuiis Well ful- ' j lowed will result io yura beiii a guod ' | singger if yu kan rede tuew.ick, aud Hiers s ! nothing onplrzxant In jure vol-, or way ov - singgin. STATE ITERS. — An ex plosion look place a fear dajs since in a stove iu which a fire bad treeu 6 newly kindled, fn u house Iwleogiug to Mr. k Cnger s^d family, near Timber claamp, - wrreu CuuDty. The explosiuu broke ibe S windows and doors, tore down the ceilint, and did other mi-chiel. 1 1 seems thai r sgma powder bad treeu placed in tba stove ►- for safe keeping by one or the family and had been forgotten. At the time of the catastro; be, ten persons were in the room, " but, slrauge to say, uo one met. injured } worthy ol note. / — Tbe Grand Division, S. of Ti, of this Elate, met in Peterson on the EMb oil. " llev. R. B. Lawreuce of New grun-wnk presided. About fifty members J represent : ;t ing the subordms'-e Divisions ««rs present, n i The officers reports exhibit Ibe oNer in a : fiosnshing cooditiOD, ibere beiug a con. ! eiderable increase of membership during j ibe quarter. The number ol members Ire- * longing to the organisation was reported at ^ oearl) sixteen hundred, end of female" viei- - lors six honored. SIeo»ures were wdopieJ I- looking to a more eetive prosecution »t lha lemperance enterprise in Una .Stale. I — Tbe Second New Jersey Cavalry have .. bean ordered io be mustered oat of thr

. Xurritlive of the Mate of .Relieion mi the Kyiibd of .>«•»* Jersey, Uttober. IK6A.' I The Synod of New Jersey, in session ai 1 Princeton, to its Ohnrches sends greeting: ! We meet at the close of another fiynodi- j : cal year, to review with grstitnde God's; ; gracioas destipgs with fts ; to give ear tr>j ihe voice of Lis rhd-tenlng. aud to venew | , | our strength by fraternal counsel and bom- , | hie. waiting apon Ibe Lord. Nine of our eleven Presbyteries send np j , , | tb»ir report* of mingled mercy snd judg- • ., ment. wbilwthe hnnd thet was accustomed j , | in forward Ihe nsrrntire of Sn-qnehiinna ' , ha- been i allied ift.de.lh. and fr ui the far i 1 appeal for kelp fr..m our wearied laborers j ! " ihere. foll.roeiL m a single month by tbe j | solemn voire of God io ibe broken health | , i ef one of nor five brelfiV-if. ami lire sadden ! j death of another. ' i, rial* of eld ptiviliges nnd old joys, the vol- j , I hi r led are alike encouraging, warning and The narrative- whirl, reach OS are mostly i ' of a rheerlol tone. The unparalleled tea,, i . . od Iron in the building, rebuilding, repair- • ing a> d adorning of houses' of worship, ami ' in paying rbarch del>t>. Burlington, Lu- . xeine. Moemi-Ulh. Newton uud West Jcr- j ' ' Many of onr rherchea have recognized | \ the priaciphs tjia- the laborer is wanhy of j ' lor.' salaries. . vll it i- feared His! iu*' some lOrUnces, f^uhfol and well educated • i servants bf God are struggling on with sal- : i arte, smaller than the incomes of the day j laborer- to whom tie y imm-ter. And we are per-natltfil ittol III llto-J litslunres BCnDtween Ihe tilieiulily ill ibe chercli nud the ! I risitaiinu of the Holy Spirit, and on the Other between tbe niggardly salary uud ihe ' spiritual (invert)- of some churches. "He ! i which soweth sfiaringly shall reap also sparingly." In gonernl the bonds between pastors end people remain unbroken, and the ordi- i . Iisn.es of the gospel have been regularly j observed. Two hundred uud foiiy-six tuiuistVn and one hundred ,<nd niltvty-five | ; churches have clused their spirituul account ! : fur another' year, and Ihe •nlcmu book is ] Sealed. We cannot forp-t to record with grateful ■ jnywthat siiice lost.wo met, the pood hand ol Uod has been over car cation. 'Che j field- thai were red with thVblood of j brothers, have bluume.l ug.m6t praying : circle- which were severed. ,11 aJilA" more uuitcd ; end even the smittcu ones upon . : whom tbe chastening fell heaviest, ere , blessing God (hat ibe nation lives, though , the darling of <h« bns».m return no more, j Tbe war had opened a new field for phi- ; field of carnage, or lu the hospital, the Ser I iont» of Christ were found, everywhere i bearing couilorl to the suffering, and offer- . ing the consolations of religion to the i i dying. A holy cause end the pSeyers ol Go.l's people preserved our patriot soldiers I • ill gram measure (ruin the evils of the csmp, i aud umde it to omuy souls the bouse of i i God, and tho very gute of heaven. Into 1 i the channels created liy the war Ihe rich 1 i acd the pour poured their willing offerings, ! ; as if tbeir treasures were roo small a socrii ficeiu th» Sucrvd enure. And, now lhal it ( i is over, while Ju-llce stnnp- to heal the 1 I wounds she ha« iirdicted, lei os hop- that i the stream of benevolence will flow on in [ • other and widening channels, until the > hosts of sin umt rebellion shall ell submit • | lo ibe peaceful reign of Jesus. 1 j While we adore the merry of God in the ' redemption of qpr land, nc cannot too mm-h i ' I exalt the grace which bus kepi the cause of j Cbri-t, at home and abroad, fimn languish" i ing- la spite of the ct-sseles- calls of hn- 1 ■ maniiy, it is believed that oar churches i have never done so well before for < I* borne ami foreign field as during the past year. | Alas, thet we should be compelled to J sorrow over the progress that vire sod im- ; morality are making iu so many places. •Six of onr reports deplore ihe fearful in- j rreaso of intemperance, while several speak j ol increa-ing Sabbath desecranon, and pro- i faulty gsmbliwg and card playing. I'aril/ j no doubt, the heritage .if our civil war; ' partly Irom the index of a foreign popals- , ti»a, bringing their foreign ideas of morel- [ ity ; end partly, we fear, from the apathy j 1 of Chris lises, these evils sr. e qts-stione-uly geiniog ground in some laces, end de. ' mnud oor earnest prayers «sd endeavors ' ] for s radic <1 reform. . As to external effairs, our reports speak 1 only the lasgosge of encouragement. The wofd, faithfully (•reached, is received wi.h : becoming iotrrest. The reportt concerning the prayer meetings generally iodicsts s goo , or so improved attendesee. — Although one eays, what doubtless ell 1 might well sajr, "Not so general ov rsgo1 tor as could be wfch'rd and Ntw Brunswick cutnplfttM of diruiutsbed Lumbers nod ' a low stele of pisiy. The ri(v-r's cnneerniiog Sabbath Schools ere especially ssctarsgisg. Pastors sod HUHHunHHlSlaHHI

' teachers seem to address tbcni:e!rsa to the work With increased interest, and through these ourseries the church is buiU np. Our Mission churches sre receiving merited attention, snd through thrm many «ouls are b.-ing gathered into the itiagdom. ; Burlington. Monmuath n^l IVert Jersey-' are er-cntiii!*y ntissirfhsry Pre-liyteries. * | Monmouth proposes hrrtcoforth to employ ; s iniasiunsry to'lnbor witUln Its bound-. | 'I urning to the purely religious phu-6 of ! "°r church affairs, ar find less to chvsr. No I'fC'hy ten. reports mi cxtaud.-d work j of grace, though all give something lit ! Show that Uod has nut utterly taken bis i Holy Hpiril from lliein, Luxerhn mourns ;i waul of spi.ituehty among church m«m- ! b.-rs. T .ere Is uo monthly concert within • il* bnniols. tind family worjhip is grestlr ncgleded. Mou'tionth join* the strisin of .umtlialioli. Inn rhxsrs as with tiding* of a blesaeti work of grn.-e in the Old Teotteot Clintcli, yiel ting, us It* fruit-, one-hjfof ; : he accessions repaired iu tba Prerbjterj . Newton tells u- of eight churches revived, »ow in a remurkulile degree. New Brotisi «ick sp.'ith* of uit.re than usual interest iu -ollie in-tiiuces. The Theological .Seminary year hu.l lt<U -tu 'enls. The College - ol New Jersey has feli the presence of the ; Holy Spirit, and with devout i hank-giving, «— record the fact Unit more thitn half of it* sludoulftsre professors of religion. Baritun speaks Of additions to most of its churches. West Jersey mentions s work uf grace which pervaded six of its churches ! nnd el-o the I* re -by it- rial Academy at j Bridge ton ; a lid *penk* of a great hopefulSites* on the part or the pastors that tho Lord will return nnd revive his work, Tho addition', on examination, to our vurrnu- ch irche* u s lost reported, were I lUKI, Tuese figures are a little below tha average rate of additions for tbe lost leu years; but con-iderably eboTe it, If wo uiuit those l»o reuiarkehio year* of the right band of the Most iligb, 1858-3, when' ; l(jw fruits ot the great revival amounted to 1,105 iu the two year*. The actual gain jn oar membership e»" reported fur ten years, has been 5,305, or twenty-seem par cent, on the Die rubers hip j of I85.'i. I he odditioD* on profession hsvu averaged five and two-tenth- percent, for : leu year*, while for tba pott year they have have been but four nnd rour-teutb* percent. In these facte we bare chough to mako i us hundde and pruyerful ; and' yet 1 ; enough to make us liop- ful and earuosti < tYitb churches prospered io temporal things more than ever before ; with a nobto spirit of liberality which ha* never flagged through the four dark years of trisl ; with a redeemed, uiul w* trust, repentant nation; nub tha boundless f)eld of the world offering it* rich harvest* ; and above all, wilh the promise of our Saviour to sustain us, ' we cannot falter. / It seems but little Uutt God has permitted uxio do; but is it s little thing if » lbonsan.1 thrill* of joy have been felt in thn presence of the uagel* of God ul tbe tidings which have gono up from our seemingly ' barren field ? But while we Isbor on, we h«»r a voice ' saving. "The night cometb." The oight cJnw ; and the venerable and gifted Dr. Chester rail asleep in the midst of his ^ labors. The oight came ; nnd our esteemed hrother Adams, worn out' wilh efforts in ' , behalf of our sick and^ wounded soldiiys, 1 entered into rest. Tbtf night came • end I'rofessor Giger, the zealous -Xt-botor snd diligent iuaiructiir, bad 'but ju*t laid ssidn ; the duties of' hi* office, vrheo the silent ^ Messenger culled htm" borne. Tbe bight ; c»me ; uud tbe beloved end venerated Dr. • Mugie passed through the gloom, to walk ill rhn light of that City which ha* no need of the sou. The sight came; and Julius F..»t--r, the beloved pastor, sod tbe model ' uf faithloliies* io ell ecclesiastical duties, ' • las railed to his reward from among iba 1 people whom fie had served from the be- ' ginning ol hi* ministry. -The nigbt eeme ; - and the beloved lather Janvier passed Joy- • 1 oa-ly aver to meet his honored missionary ! —to who had so lately pel on the martyr's j crown. The nigbt came ; end 1'eull, the ' i young end zealous missionary -of C'ornco, "! having gathered s few joyous sheaves of .Wrira'* great harvest, returns i to his " • islao.i home, to bear fhn Muster's voics 1 1 saying, "Well done, thou good and faithful ' : servant, enlrr tbou into tbe Joy of thy r j Lord."' ; ! And toalay a stdmnn inqoiry gnea shroad | to onr colleges and seminaries, sod to onr' ■ • homes of refincmsot as well, saying: "Who r mil be baptixed for tbe dead T Who wilp • tab* tit- banner of tbe evoss from tbe fallen ■ standard-bearer, and plant it to the bewrt i of great, benlvhted Africa J" Theshadowa are deepening; tire oight comwth to m all. But while tha night ' come* to ■*, it i* glorions to see the day 1 daaning mora widely over lbs guilty world. > Ami now, gathered nmong these classic ■ .eats, so near the sacred dost of the veaera ' ared father* of onr ebnreh, and emoog tho -renes abeie their calm spirit* must de- ' light to lioger ; nbnte tbe grant ckmd of I wiineese*, we lw hold, by faith, tba croei- • Ded and rison Saviosr, pointing o* to tba . perishing field, nod hesr him *->yiag : "_Be . t bos faithful snro death, sad 1 will firs' thee s crown of lift--" . Bv order of 9ynmd, i Josrrn W; H ossasn, | < Chairman of Gommtttesb