But that the death and burial of the believer are figurative-That is, dead and buried to sin-The death of the old man, and the life of the

new.

Indeed the Romans to whom the Apostles was writing, did not cover their dead bodies with earth, but burned them; and the Jews deposited them in caves.

QUESTION. Where were disciples baptized, according to the history of the New Testament?

ANSWER.-Just where they were converted.

Q. When were they baptised?

A.-Just when they were converted. No set day appointed for a baptizing-No hunting of streams or ponds-No making of dams, or changing of apparel ever hinted at."

UNION OF CHRISTIANS.

DEAR BROTHER :-Chancing to take up "Nevin's Practical Thoughts" a few moments ago, I opened at the following passage, which I transcribe for the UNIONIST:

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Why, if we who love the Lord are heartily in favor of the world's becoming His, are we so divided among ourselves? The enemies of the world's conversion are united. Yes, they forget their private differences when the cause of Jesus is to be attacked, and one heart animates the whole infernal host. But the friends of the great enterprise are divided, and much of their force is spent in skirmishes among themselves. When will it be otherwise? When will christians agree on a truce among themselves, and march in one mighty phalanx against the world, to the service to which the great Captain of salvation calls them? When shall it once be? I do not know, but I do know that when it takes place, the first of the thousand years will not be far off.

Fellow-soldiers of the cross! What are we about? Let us form. Let us put on our complete armor. . . . . Let us march on to the conquest of the world for Jesus. He is already in the field, let us hasten to his support. Let us go to his help against the mighty. Let us leave all, even our mutual dissensions, suspicions and jealousies, and follow him, and presently the world shall be converted. Burlington, Iowa, May, 1865.

TRAVELLER.

Do GOOD AND LEND, HOPING FOR NOTHING AGAIN.-When our action is performed from love of the good which is done, and for the sake of God's glory, without regard to any reward, present or future, then it is the highest form of good, and yet it is wholly devoid of merit. We merely act out the love which God has implanted within us. It is the Lord's work, not ours. And after all, what honor can possibly exceed that of being the instruments in the hands of the Almighty, for the accomplishment of his purposes.

Personal Notices.

ELDRIDGE.-Rev. Azariah Eldridge, D. D., who resigns his charge on account of ill health, preached a farewell sermon at the First Street Presbyterian Church of Detroit on Lord's Day Morning May 12, 1865. It was a very impressive discourse.

GUINNESS.-Benjamin Lee Guinness, a brewer of Dublin, has restored the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Patricks at an expense of three-quarters of a million dollars. If he had procured small annuities for the widows and orphans of those who were brought to drunkenness and premature death in consequence of the use of "Guinness' stout," we could commend his charity.

GARRISON.-Wm. Lloyd Garrison is to deliver an address on Abraham Lincoln, at Providence, R. I., on June 1st.

HAMMOND.-Rev. E. P. Hammond has just concluded his labors of about seven weeks in Philadelphia. The American Presbyterian thinks the movement has been instrumental of great good, and says that those most familiar with the work estimate that from two to three thousand have been converted. Several meetings of 3,000 persons were held in the Academy of Music, at which large numbers rose for prayers, and many were in tears. A number of meetings were held in the open air near Calvary Church, into which inquirers were invited for religious conversation.

MONOD.-Rev. Theodore Monod, author of several theological works of value, is now in N. Y. City. He comes here as a delegate from the Free Churches of France.

ROBINS. Twenty-eight years ago we had the pleasure of hearing the Rev. Sanderson Robins, then a minister of St. John's (chapel of ease), London, England. Through his instrumentality we were brought to a knowledge of the Lord. For over twenty years we lost sight of this dear friend. Now we are gratified to learn that he is alive, and is still efficient in the good cause. From the vicarage of St. Peters, Isle of Thanet, England, he sends forth a tract on "Party Spirit in the Church," portraying the unity of the church and the evils of the spirit of sect, with great force and eloquence.

SMART. Rev. I. S. Smart, late of Detroit, has removed to Evanston, Ills., the seat of the Ganett Biblical Institute of which he is the Agent.

SUMNER.-Hon. Charles Sumner is to deliver an eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, at Boston, June 1st.

TENNEY.-Rev. E. P. Tenny has been awarded $100 by the Massachusetts Temperance Society, for the best essay on the part which christians and good citizens should take in the temperance reform.

WOOD.-Rev. J. Wood and Rev. W. Cochrane each delivered a discourse in Zion Church, Brantford, C. W., April 19, 1865, on the occasion of the funeral obsequies of our late President. They are published under the appropriate heading, Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President."

We unite in the hope expressed by the Rev. W. Cochrane, that we may soon see the day when Britain and America, forgetting all their criminations and recriminations, shall, as in days gone by, unite together for the speed of justice, liberty and christian missions, throughout the world."

REV. GEO. DUFFIELD, D. D.

Upon the occasion of the installation of the Rev. W. A. McCorkle, as associate pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of Detroit on April 27, the Advertiser and Tribune published a notice of the venerable servant of God, Rev. Geo. Duffield, D. D., from which we extract the following, which we hope will be acceptable to our readers:

Rev. George Duffield, D. D., was born in the village of Strasburg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July 4th, 1794, and is, therefore, now in the 71st year of his age. His father, bearing the same name, was a merchant, and for nine years Controller General of the State of Pennsylvania under Governor McKean; his grandfather, having also the same name, was the well known chaplain of the old Continental Congress, which honor he held in common with Bishop White.

At the early age of 16 Dr. Duffield graduated at the University of Pennsylvania then under the provostship of A. McDowell, LL. D., and from this institution he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

In 1811 he went to New York to pursue his Theological_studies in the then newly established seminary under the care of John M. Mason, D. D., who, both as a preacher and as a Theological instructor, has had very few equals in this country and no superior. He considered it his great business to teach his pupils to study the Bible, and to think honestly and independently according to its dictates, and we have always been accustomed to regard Dr. M. as the intellectual father of more and better Theologians in the American Presbyterian Church, than any one who ever occupied a professor's chair.

On the 20th of April, 1815, Dr. D. was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and immediately after entered on the active duties of his profession, in which he has continued ever since.

In the fall of 1815 he received a call to the church of Carlisle, Pa., as successor to Rev. Robt. Davidson, D. D., and Rev. Charles Nisbet, D. D., and which same church was formerly under the care of his grandfather.

In 1817 he was married in New York city to Miss Isabella Bethune, daughter of the well known merchant Divie Bethune, sister of the late Rev. George W. Bethune, D. D., and granddaughter of Isabella Graham, whose praise is in all the churches, and whose biography still remains as much a favorite as ever.

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He has had eleven sons, of whom only five are now living; and three daughters, of whom only one remains.

This pastorate in Carlisle continued until 1835, when he received a call to the Fifth Presbyterion Church, of Philadelphia, Arch street, as successor to the Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, M. D. The persecution he endured in Carlisle by the advocates of a limited atonement, here rose to a height almost unendurable, and if ever there was a more bitter instance of the odium theologicum on this side of the water, we know not where it is to be found.'

In 1837 he was called to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, as the successor of Rev. Charles G. Finney, and though his pastorate there was a short one, it was certainly not the least important or the least effective.

In 1838 he was called to the First Presbyterian Congregation, Detroit, and arrived in this city in the midst of the Patriot war; and of this church he has continued pastor down to the present time.

Remaining faithfully at his post during the cholera season of 1849, and thence severely prostrated by this dreadful malady during that period, his health was so completely broken by a chronic disease that threatened his life, that at the urgent request of his people, he accepted leave of absence for a year to go abroad.

His travels extended as far south as into Nubia and Abyssinia and the third cataract of the Nile; then through Palestine, Arabia, etc., as far east as Damascus. Returning by way of European Turkey, Greece, etc. There is but little doubt that to this timely vacation under God, he owes his restoration to health.

During the last winter, in consequence of a very severe and continued illness, which confined him to his house for many weeks, Dr. D., feeling that his labors were nearly ended, thought it his duty to resign as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and have some one else elected that would be better able to meet the increasing demand for labor. The congregation, however, refused to accept his resignation, and elected Rev. Wm. A. McCorkle as Associate Pastor, and this relation bids fair to be of the happiest and most satisfactory kind.

It is but right to state, still further, that Dr. Duffield has not been one of those who had no eye or heart for anything but those pertaining to his own individual church. His labors in behalf of education in this State have been great and unceasing; and as one of the Regents of the University, for nine years, and as a fellow laborer with Dr. Pitcher, Mr. C. C. Trowbridge, Major Kearsley, and Gov. Barry, in laying broad and deep the foundations of that noble institution, he enjoys with them the satisfaction of knowing that his labors in this respect have not been in vain.

So, too, as an active member of the State Horticultural and Agricultural Societies, few men have taken a deeper or more practical interest in the development of the resources of the State in this department. So with the mining interests of the State, especially in the Upper Peninsula. Dr. D. has been unwearied in watching the progress of Geological discovery, and in studying the best manner in which to make these vast stores of mineral wealth available. Indeed

in everything pertaining to the State of Michigan he has taken a deep and abiding interest, which seems only to increase the longer he lives in it. As yet, it may be said of him, that his eye is not dim, nor his natural force abated, and in the green old age that he is now enjoying we sincerely hope that he may continue for a decade to come.

Besides many fugitive sermons on various topics, Dr. Duffield has published several large works, viz.: "Spiritual Life, or Regeneration," (1833); "Dessertations on the Prophecies," (1842); " Millenarianism Defended;""Letters on the Claims of Episcopal Bishops," (1842), occasioned by a published sermon of Bishop McCoskry, etc.

Miscellany.

NOT SHUNNING TO DECLARE UNTO YOU THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD."

A New York paper recommends that its patrons should refuse to pay their preachers, whom it names and denounces as political.

It is not at all necessary to state what class of ministers are thus condemned. It will be found that the class of preachers who are faithful to the Good Master in all things, cannot be starved into submission. Here and there one may be found who will," for a consid eration," agree not to refer to those topics upon which there is such morbid sensitiveness, but while these few, so far behind the age, are as moral cowards sneaking in the rear, thousands of the true preachers, as heroes in the vanguard, are leading the people in every moral reform.

The so-called conservatives who cry, "keep politics out of the church," are usually the very persons who are most active in introducing into christian communities the wire-working of the political intriguer. They conserve the unholy union of the world and the church. Wherever their expedients are adopted the Christ spirit of liberty and love languishes, and the church looses power. Under such government spiritual lukewarmness is always apparent. look in vain to this class for exhibitions of the frankness and the openheartedness of true christian manhood. With cant phrase, sidelong glance and pressure of the hand, they strive to persuade you to father their schemes. "With fluttering lips and a double heart do they speak."-Psa. xii: 1.

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Unfaithful preachers North and South, taught the people that it made no difference whether they held slaves or not, whether they thought slaveholding a virtue or a sin, that it was a mere political question, and they might hold whatever opinion they pleased. "God seeth not as man seeth." It made a difference to him. When we became so far involved in the evil as to be ready to consent to the perpetuation of slavery so that we might have peace, then God permitted the outbreak of the rebellion. When we were ready to