President.-Rev. B. T. WELCH, D.D. Vice Presidents-Rev. J. L. Dagg, D. D., Rev. E. Lathrop, Rev. A. Caswell, D.D., Rev. C. G. Sommers, Rev. Robinson. Corresponding Secretary-Rev. S. S. Cutting. Treasurer-N. C. Platt, Esq. Thus the Society has prospered during a truly stormy period of its existence. Although much prejudice has existed against it, and it has lost some of its best agents, yet other friends have been raised up, and its income has been, during the past year, about $4000 more than during the previous year. The officers of the Society have certainly taken a very commendable course by treating those having opposite views with kindness, and by keeping entirely aloof from angry controversy. We can but believe that the time is not far distant when the Bible Union will confine itself exclusively to preparing a revision of the English Scriptures, and unite heartily again with the American & Foreign Bible Society in giving the Bible to the world. Rev. S. Remington, one of the Managers of the Bible Union, has already resigned his seat in the Board, because he believes that the Society ought to confine its operations exclusively to revision, and cease to occupy the ground occupied by the American & Foreign Bible Society, We hope that others will soon take the same course. Let us have some plan, brethren, by which we can be united in this great and sublime movement, designed to give the word of eternal life to the millions of our race who are groping in the darkness of moral death. GENERAL ITEMS. ROCHESTER AND MADISON UNIVERSITIES.-We notice that the Legislature of this State have passed the bill appropriating the revenue of the U. S. Deposit Fund as follows-To Rochester University, $10,000; Genessee College, $10,000; Hall College, Madison University, N. Y. University, Geneva College, each $1,500. On motion of Mr. Morgan, $1,500 was appropriated to St. John's College, Fordham; to Central College, Courtland Co., $1,500; to the Medical Institutions of the Albany and New-York University College of Physicians and Lawyers, Geneva and Buffalo Medical College, $1,000 each. REV. DR. BELCHER. We learn by a letter from the Dr. that himself and family are so afflicted with the ague and fever, at Battle Creek, Michigan, that they will be obliged to remove farther east. THE CANNON-ST. BAPTIST CHURCH of this city are about to engage in extensive repairs of their house of worship. A baptistery is to be built and improvements are to be made which will render their audience room much more attractive than it hitherto has been. The church, under the faithful labors of their present pastor, Rev. H. J. Eddy, have enjoyed a precious revival during the spring. We understand that their Sabbath School is one of the most flourishing in the city. THE SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH, of this city, of which Rev. C. G. Sommers is pastor, have finally sold their church edifice in Nassau-street, and purchased one up town, in Hammond-st., formerly occupied by our Presbyterian brethren. THE PIERREPONT-ST. BAPTIST CHURCH, of Brooklyn, of which Rev. B. T Welch, D.D., is pastor, are extensively repairing their church edifice, and will have, when completed, one of the most beautiful audience rooms in the vicinity. FOREIGN ITEMS. There is a great paucity of foreign news, during the last month. ENGLAND.-Opening of the Great Fair. This event took place May 1, with great pomp, and was witnessed by about thirty thousand people. No accident or disturbance occurred. AUSTRIA.—The Hungarian Refugees. Despatches dated March 29, from Mr. McCurdy, have been received at Washington, announcing the refusal of the Austrian government to allow the Sultan to release Kossuth and his companions. Arrival of other Hungarian Refugees.-Twenty-eight Hungarian and thirtynine Polish Refugees arrived at this port from Liverpool April 20, in a very destitute condition. We are sure that they will receive the sympathy and aid of the American people. English intelligence of May 3, informs us that Austria and Russia demand that the Sultan shall retain Kossuth two years longer. The Sultan, it was thought, would not comply with the demand, relying on England and France to aid in the refusal. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. VELOCITY OF SOUND.-Some experiments in regard to the velocity with which sound is communicated by means of iron wire, have just been reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences. The experiments were made upon the wires of the electric telegraph established along the Versailles rail-road on the right bank of the Seine. The result is, that sound is propagated over wire at the rate of 11,434 feet the second. ELECTRO-MAGNETIC LOCOMOTIVE.-Prof. Page has succeeded in propelling a locomotive by electro-magnetism at the rate of nineteen miles an hour. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.-M. Villemain, at a recent meeting of the Academie des Belles Lettres at Paris, stated that a work of Origen, the celebrated Father in the Church heretofore unknown, has been discovered and published by the librarian of the National Assembly. It traces the heresies of the third century to the writings of Pugan philosophers. UNITED STATES.-The works of John C. Calhoun are soon to be published, with a biography, to be edited by Mr. Cralle, his private Secretary. The first volume has already appeared, and five more are to follow. The works of Alexander Hamilton are also in course of publication by C. S. Francis, in seven octavo volumes. PROF. GAMMELL, of Brown University, has been transferred from the Professorship of Rhetoric to that of History and Political Economy. Rev. R. P. Dunn, of Camden, N. J., has been appointed Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the same Institution. LATER NEWS FROM TURKEY.-The Sultan, overawed by Russia and Aus tria, has ordered Kossuth and his compatriots to be detained two months longer. MINISTERIAL CHANGES. Rev. L. G. Beck of Flemington, N. J., has become Agent of the American Bap. Pub. Soc. for New-Jersey; Rev. Z. A. Briant, has become pastor of the Bap. ch. Triangle, Broome co., N. Y.; Rev. A. H. Burlingham, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Owego N. Y.; Rev. W. Wilkins, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Marcellus, (P. O. Elliston, Marcellus, Onon. co., N. Y.); Rev. T. W. Clark, of Boston, Mass., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Nantucket, Mass.; Rev. M. H. Bixby, of Williston, Vt., has become pastor of the Baptist ch. Johnson, Vt.; Rev. Benj. Mc Louth, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Scipio, Cay. co., N.Y.; Rev. George Mixter, of North Ashford, Ct., has become pastor of the Baptist church, East Lyme, Ct.; Rev. H. Spencer, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Montezuma, Cayuga co., N. Y.; Rev. W. C. Child, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Beverly, Mass.; Rev. Henry L. Fish, (formerly a Christian Minister,) has become pastor of the Baptist church, Knowlesville, Orleans co., N.Y.; Rev. C. Brinkerhoff, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Woodstown, N. Y.; Rev. Joseph T. Robert, of Robertville, S. C., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Portsmouth, O.; Rev. A. N. Benedict, of Gaylord's Bridge, has become pastor of the Baptist church, White Hill, (P. O. Derby, Ct.) ; Rev. J. Fletcher, of Saratoga, New York, has become pastor of the Bap. ch. Amenia, Dutchess co. N. Y.; Rev. A. W. Valentine, of Weedsport, N.Y. has become pastor of the Baptist church, West Henrietta, Monroe co., N. Y.; Rev. D. F. Twiss, of Deckertown, N. J., has become pastor of the Baptist ch., Middletown Point, N. J.; Rev. Elijah Baldwin, of Butternuts, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Oxford, Chen. co., N. Y.; Rev. J. B. Rogers of Meads' Creek, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Hornby, Steub. co., N. Y.; Rev. Howell Smith, of Pen Yan, has become pastor of the Baptist ch. Dansville, Liv. co., 'N. Y.; Rev. L. Davis, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Corning, Steuben co., N. Y.; Rev. A. Guy, of Fayette, has become pastor of the Bap. church, South New Berlin, Chem. co., N. Y.; Rev. O. D. Taylor, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Perrinton, Monroe co., N. Y.; Rev. A. E. Denison, of Wallingford, Ct., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Clinton, Ct.; Rev. I. Woodbury, of Mason Village, N. H., has become pastor of the 2nd Baptist ch. Manchester, N. H.: Rev. E. J. Scott, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Rushford, Allegh. co., N. Y.; Rev. J. P. Simmons of Cortlandville, has become pastor of the Baptist church in Fulton, Otsego co., N. Y.; Rev. F. Kidder, of Busti, N. Y., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Wattsburg, Erie co., Pa.; Rev. R. Winegar, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Baldwinsville, Onon. co., N. Y.; Rev. L. S. Baker, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Hermon, St. Law. co., N. Y.; Rev. O. W. Gibbs, of Montezuma, has become pastor of the First Baptist church, Hector, N. Y.; Rev. A Knapp, of Burlington Flats, N. Y., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Centre Square, Ots. co., N. Y.; Rev. A. Kingsbury, of Albany, N. Y., has become pastor of the Baptist church, Fredonia, Chaut. co., N. Y.; Rev. F. S. Parke, of Clifton Park, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Cheshire, Mass.; Rev. B. F. Hubbard, of Milton, N. H., has become pastor of the First Baptist church, Sanford, Me.; Rev. J. Harris, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Battle Creek; Rev. T. M. Erwin, of Steubenville, has become pastor of the Baptist church, Rockville, O., (P. O. Blue Rock, Musking. co., O.) REVIVALS. Cincinnati, O. (Fitfh-st, ch.) 50 baptized up to April 1. At Williams' College, Mass., Hanover College, Indiana, Amherst College, Mass., Delaware College, Delaware, Miami University and Oxford College, powerful revivals have been experienced since January last. Medina, 23 baptized up to April 3 ; Norwalk, O., 46 baptized up to April 7; New Haven, Ct., 53 baptized and added to 2nd Bap. ch. up to April 20; Sing Sing, N. Y., 58 baptized up to April 21; Chowan Female Seminary, Murfreesboro, N. C., 23 young ladies hopefully converted; Palmyra, Me., 21 baptized up to April 15. At the Pastors' Conference of this city, convened May 5th, there were reported 33 baptisms. North Granville, Wash. co., N. Y., 43 baptized on three successive Sabbaths. Bridgeport, Ct. 18 baptized recently. MONTHLY LIST. Deaths of Baptist Ministers. Edwin Dibell, Gardiner, Me., April 30. Isaac Malin, Henry co. Ky.,Oct. 31, 1850, H. C. Putnam, Colum. N. J., April 30 aged 79. R. G. Lewes, Hornby, N. Y., April 29. Mt. Carmel, Ill., March 1. Alfred Bennett, Homer, N. Y., May 10. McLeansboro, Ill., March 1 Ordinations. C. R. Negus, Bridgeport, Madison co., J. S. Kalloch, Rockland, Me., April 15. Henry T. Stevens, Black Swamp, Ga., Churches Constituted. Macoupin co. Ill., March 6. Dedications. Greenmanville, (Stonington,) Ct., (Seventh Day Baptists,) April 3. Henry F. Smith, Hastings, N. Y., Newtown, Ct., April 23. April 24. LITERARY NOTICES. A Commentary on the Apocalypse.-By Moses Stuart. & Terrett. 2 vols. pp. 504, 504 8vo. New-York Van Nostrand A Commentary on Ecclesiastes.-By Moses Stuart. New-York: George P. Putnam. pp. 297. 12mo. Prof. Stuart has long been known in this and other countries as one of the most thorough biblical scholars of the age. His opinions are generally the result of careful and persevering investigation. He has been for many years a successful and popular teacher in Andover Theological Seminary, and has done much to extend a knowledge of Oriental philology. His studies and duties as a theological Professor have admirably fitted him for an able commentator on the sacred writings. His style is heavy and diffuse, making his works much more ponderous than is necessary; still the gold is there, and perhaps is more highly valued from the labor essential in obtaining it. His Commentary on the Apocalypse is learned, able, and highly valued by scholars of all denominations. The Apocalypse is an exceedingly difficult book to be intelligibly interpreted. It is especially so with the prophetic part, which consists almost entirely of obscure symbols, unaccompanied by such obvious explanations and illustrations as appear in the other prophetical writings. There has been a strange diversity of opinion among commentators in respect to the book of Revelation. Many make it too full of mysteries. Stuart regards it as he would any other book in the canon of Scripture, and takes it for granted that the writer had a "present and immediate object in view," and that the book must have been understood by those to whom it was addressed. He then endeavors, as nearly as possible, to place himself in the same circumstances as those to whom the book was addressed. This is, we believe, the proper place for an interpreter. He will succeed there if any where. Prof. Stuart enters into a minute and very learned examination of the history, object, economy, original language, author, date, unity, credit in the canon, and other subjects, occupying one entire volume. In Volume II. the exposition of the text is given, and near the end of the book appear valuable discussions on Angelology, the symbolic use of Numbers, and other important and difficult subjects. We are truly surprised at the immense amount of labor bestowed upon this work. Individuals will take exception to some of Stuart's views; but we think they will be found generally to be as reliable as any exposition we have of the Apocalypse, and we can most cordially commend it to our readers. It has been before the public for several years, and has recently been purchased by Messrs. Van Nostrand & Terrett. Stuart's Commentary on Ecclesiastes exhibits the same research and erudition which appear in his Commentary on the Apocalypse, though the book of Ecclesiastes presents far less difficulties to the interpreter than the book of Revelation. In the former, there are various expressions which seem, at first sight, to favor skepticism in respect to the existence of a future state, and appear to encourage devotion to pleasure as the chief good. A close examination, however, will show that this objection to the authenticity of the book is groundless. Prof. S. has occupied about one-third of the volume in an elaborate introduction. In the Commentary the author has been very particular to explain grammatical forms for the benefit of Hebrew students. No theological library will be complete without this volume and Stuart's other works. Illustrated Domestic Bible. By Rev. J. Cobbin, M. A. New-York; S. Hueston. We are happy to announce that this valuable work is now complete, and can be supplied by the publisher (139 Nassau-st.) splendidly bound, in gilt morocco, for $10,50, and in more common binding for $7,00 per copy. This Bible contains a brief but condensed and valuable exposition of each chapter, practical reflections, extensive marginal references, many improved readings, seven hundred engravings illustrative of the sacred text, three maps executed on steel, and other attractions which make it decidedly, in our estimation, the most convenient and useful Family Bible in one volume, which we have seen. We are not surprised to learn that there is a great demand for it. We advise our patrons to obtain a copy. |