78 51 ever at the Gate of Heaven..303 Semi-centenary of the Reformation..... arewell.. cked Girl.. Sunday Services in the London Theatres Synod of Albany..... The Archbishop of New York.. Work in Italy. Letter from Dr. J. Prime. BOOK NOTICES: ....35, 66, 194, 227, 322 .140 RECEIPTS: ..35, 66, 99, 131, 161, 194, 227, .290 290, 324, 355 OUR CAMPAIGN FOR 1867. WE greet our friends and readers with a happy Ne may prove so to them and us, is our most earnest de erful providences of God have brought this Society to ense responsibility. As it stands at the very thresh nd views the work that now lies before it, it almost s rospect. Nearly one-fourth of the globe, which unt hut up, barred and ironed, by the impregnable wall uperstition and error, is open before it. Kings and and together to uphold the throne of a religious tyr re not now seen creeping upon their hands and knee leading for a smile from one who calls himself the Two hundred millions of souls stand waiting to know a his means. They have hitherto accepted a creed for how they find themselves free to hear, think, receive a what shall they accept ? Infidelity stands ready to the atal mantle over this great mass of immortal bein vhispers doubt and uncertainty, and appeals to the pa he uncertainty of creeds and prayers and religious or within and foes without of the cross of Jesus, battle da victory. Is this great multitude freed from thraldom, a state worse by far than the one from which it is esc cians of America! we must in a great measure answer Here stands a Society which the united Protestant and has constituted for the work of evangelizing nomin For years and years it could only send men to blow the the walls. Now they may enter in, and walk to the beast, scattering as they go leaves from the tree of grief that we are obliged to tell you, Christian friends, has not one-fourth the means necessary for the work yo ere none to give us the same for Italy, Hungary, Gr as proved an age of munificent charities. Rich men h 1 that wealth given to benefit the masses is wealth s Will such names as that of Peabody and Stewart an rts ever die? And yet does not the act of that noble Ackerman, who gave so large a sum a few weeks y enrich the poor heathen, transcend even their deed will perpetuate his name. No monument will comm e, but will not souls welcome him in heaven as save on and idolatry through his means? an brethren! you who have the means and can do it, t a hundred thousand dollars this year in South Amer as now taken her place among the free nations of the tical sense, she has been born again. Her great sta not to denounce, in unmeasured terms, the Papal hie forward to its complete humiliation as a foregone cond love the souls of their countrymen look to the Church aid, and they tell us if we will help them now in their hristianize that beautiful land, it will soon place itself where pecuniary assistance will be needed. This Socie at field three American missionaries, who have under ly fifty Italian assistants, ministers, evangelists, colpor e-women. They need hundreds. ches will take up each an evangelist or a colporteur, he cate through us with the church that supports him, and an interest which no other course could so well secure. school at Penn Yan has adopted this plan, and has furn Es to employ an evangelist. Who will follow this good e ur missionaries have promised to translate the letters. could not this also be done in South America? Mr. Gi THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION IN M ARTICLE FIRST. We publish this month the first of a series of from the course of lectures prepared by Col. J. Riv history, condition and prospects of his native coun will thus have a good opportunity to learn the truth tant points, concerning which we have had no suffic means of information. Mr. Rivera y Rio was distinguished at home as an a books, in prose and poetry, a journalist, and a deput Congress. He has studied our institutions during h thus been able to contrast them with those of his own "I shall endeavor, with all possible brevity, to giv facts most important to be known, which have been disturbances that have so frequently occurred in that endowed by Providence with the elements of prosperi of a far better fate. I wish that the facts which I sh serve to call the attention of this sister nation, which selves, exhibits so many proofs that a Republic and patible with Peace, with social aggrandizement, with departments, and with perfection in moral and relig which serves this nation as a precious chain of union, prevented its overthrow, and enabled it to take that the history of its civilization and social improvements, been desired by the world: the emancipation of a ra now bedew with tears of gratitude the holy pages of t gress and liberty-the Bible! It will be gratifying to see the Mexican people, w many years struggling for the good cause, beginning t fits of a lasting peace, and then engaged in learning ove revolution as our rights demand it, as nations a 18 of obtaining a more durable peace. We love rev state of the country does not satisfy us. Then we de t, which is the constant longing of human nature. 1, when an avaricious and proud clergy divide the pow ›rities, and deny us the right of choosing our functio litary dictation weighs upon a people eminently rep anny imposes limits to our prerogatives as citizens, and to think, write, teach, learn, gain instruction and ma I become worthy of the age in which we live. lid not like revolutions, we should still be governed of Spain and watched by the holy office of the Inquisi ld still be the tributary colony of three centuries ago, ot enjoy the few social advantages which are enjoyed s, as is now the fact in Cuba, which has a censorship o d slavery sanctioned by the laws-those miserable abu nich ruined the country of Isabella Second. is no country more opposed to educating its colonies and to prove this, it is sufficient to compare the present the Antilles with that of Canada, that of Mexico, some that of British America. or these reasons that we have liked war, that we might on a level with the United States, and cast off the opp e of our rickety Cæsars. We have desired to emerge fi I tutelage, under which we learned nothing more than to ries of recluses and misanthropes; under which we ha blic spectacle offered us than that of the auto de fe; ng of a Protestant Bible would have caused the burning mily at the stake. We desired a life of our own, constitut liberty of conscience. We wished to abandon our li and we made a revolution-the first of our revolutions ; |