Show E D I 1 T R EAL SV sn m y 9 i t THE TEE california christian hristian advocate of july cotita contains ins a letter from this city signed byr byl byg M peirce jn which th el writer dael dwells Is at some length oi kaljo prospects of methodism in this country doun try and the difficulties be and his fellow laborers have had bad and still idill have to contend with here speaking of the camp meeting T Ve eting he be hays fays the order was of the best the interest good and the audience in the evening very large the meeting was productive of large laige good it might pro perly pelly be designated a great awakening thousands tho tao mands wands listened to the pure truth jor for the farst first timey this to say the least is an extraordinary statement the thousands re I 1 furred to cannot mean miners an and d others who were not latter day saints for there were not a thousand of them if those who attended all the ni meetings had been counted the bulk bulb of the audience was latter day sainte saints but the writer certainly can not mean them thin when he speaks of thousands for even if they hd had never heard epure pure gospel truth in utah by which we suppose he means methodism I 1 the they Y had bad liete ried to it before they camehl nearly all of them having b aeri men meak bers of religious denominations at the time they joined coined the church of jesus christ of latter day saints a ints and probably the majority of the them i m had bad been methodists the thousands who he says listened listener to pure gospel truth for the first time therefore cannot be those residents and visitors who are not latter day sainta saints and they cannot be adult latter day saints who then is left to form the thousands mentioned there ia a no other class that we can think of burthel but the children these form a very humer bumer numer ous class and very many maby of thelby the request of president young who told parents to let their children attend the camp meeting were present at the big tent but in listening to the speakers at the camp meeting did they bear what mr peirce calls pure gospel truth for fon forthe the first time bishop rings kings ley rev mr fisher dr tiffany and andia andja la number of other prominent bieth Bleth methodist odist preachers would not be flattered to hear or read this remark of mr Ps for these gentlemen have preached in the tabernacles to large audiences and on numerous occasions the children of the city have been brought to listen to them that they might have an opportunity of or hearing the views of sectarian teachers and learn their doctrines so that unless we conclude that mr peirce questions the orthodoxy of the methodist preachers who have held forth in the public meetings of the latter day saints and thinks himself and the idam came i i e with the big tent the first and only simon pure methodists who have ever been here we still are at a loss to know who are I 1 the thou thousands bandi sandi who listened to pure gospel truth for the first time 21 he must either deny the orthodoxy of the eminent methodists who have preached here cy or acknowledge that he k 13 9 written a mis statement to therall the california christian advocate he can take which horn of the dilemma he chooses but that he must take one is indisputable the only motive that we can discern for making this false statement public ia is the anxiety to evoke sympathy and that which comes from sympathy money what christian could withhold aid from a mission that tha thad had such formidable difficulties to contend with as mr peirce represents as existing here while the he athens of asta asia and africa call forth herculean exertions exertion na for their salvation shall the thousands of heathen in utah who never heard pure gospel truth until mr P made his advent here be suffered to perish while he is here ready and willing to spend all the money that can be col coi collected leel leet for him t we do not wish to review mr Ps entire letter a person reading it and not acquainted here would readily conclude that the people were pagans and dwelling in heathenish ignorance what is wanted he says is is a thre months campaign in this city and ter in the true methodist way he would be glad be he adds to have brother and sister inskip inskip with him in this campaign judging by what we heard of air inskipt lna In skips kips style when he was here he is better suited bulted for the prize ring than the pulpit he has ati ah the manners and the language of a religious bull buil bully F burns must have had such a priest pyles in his minds eye when ha he wrote learn ah three reg rei mue e crayfish anda na I 1 half haip mile mlle wl dun aun weel braces 1 s thread rera repa looven an lang lane wry faces facet grunt grant J t u up p a soler colemn nn groan and ana damn V parties but his own but then wi e 0 dox 1 mr Ps pla estl esti estimation matio matlo M aid abd ald tatja aa t 0 8 u A jy clent brodders ahas abas gained con pid fid erable li bonoan 0 defame on account of f tb the p prompt lit donagi manner n i er in which he dea dealt it with the comeans on his hia late expedition the first account received in this country made the admiral and his hla men appear like heroes and the comeans like treacherous savages who deserved nothing but the chastisement they received A late number of the shanghai Shang hae news publishes a more detailed account of the expedition and while detracting nothing from the honor of admiral 1 rogers abd and abdus andus s inen iuen men it makes the cor eans eins seem less jess like the set of treacherous savages they have been depre represented dented the account bays says that shortly after the american fleet anchored in the harbor nearest the capital of corea a junk jenir contain containing ink three corean officials ap appeared pear and hailed the flagship flag ship an interpreter was sent from the jatter latter aboard the junk to 6 hear bear what they had to say the officials were the bearer bearers bof of A letter purporting king jing of which the following is said to be an interpretation terp torp in the year 1868 a man of your nation whose vj hoad nam ewas Febiger feig lra came e liere mere and communicated and away y why lahy cannot you do the same in the year 1865 a people called the french came ahme here and tind we refer you lo 10 1 6 them for what happened this people and kingdom have lived inthe in the enjoyment of their own civilization years and we want no other we trouble troubie boother no other nations i s wh why should they tr tra uble ubie bl 6 us gur gut country lin ain the tha furt furthest hese bese easta alst yours in the furthest west for what hat purpose do you come so many thousand miles across the sea Is it to enquire about the vessel destroyed the general sherman her men committed piracy and murder and they were punished with death do you want our ialo lain that cannot be do you want intercourse with us that cannot be the coreana went aboard the flagship but not being able to produce their credentials as the agents of the king which t they hey represented them selves toa abe ibe gaa gla yaa I 1 tie twe admiral of ithe thi I 1 fleece fleet and mr arlowe 10 lo Lowe the amerlean american minis fer ser er declined to see them an effort was made wade to impress them with the idea that the expedition was only on peace intent and they IL left aft apparently satisfied on the following day some seven saven or eight more supposed to be great men of the nation also alao visit edthe fleet and ex expressions re 1 s sion aion i s of deac 11 ll were interchanged before the interview terminated yet despite all this the account says when the fleet proceeded ded up the river towards the tha capital it was attacked now there is nothing to be surprised at git in this the comeans had been totally unaccustomed to intercourse with the western nations they were content as the kings letter expressed it tog to go 0 on the usual tenor of their way wishing to 0 be let alone and to let others alone if lf their statement be true the crew of the wineral sherman had not acted noted in a manner to gain for white people the confidence and good will of the they were put ta to death for piracy and murder and seeing a tolerably large fleet of armed vessels of the bame same nationality as the general german sherman approaching their capital after having in g received assurances from its officers of race peace and good will it would have been wonderful indeed if the comeans had not attacked it but ic it is the old method of procedure of the western with oriental nations china and japan have had the same experience they have been forced on the plea of being made to p participate in the blessings of civilization to open their doors to the occidentals dentals but the pecuniary benefit of the latter was the great point sought and attained corea must also be compelled to pay tribute to the west the entering wedge has been driven and no matter how con tented and happy they may be under their own system of things they will he be forced to admit into their thein midst cu cub cus s oms and practices totally foreign to pre pie ti air irown own one of the results that will be sure to t follow this thib irruption of the western powers into corea is this if the natives of the latter country do not on a more intimate acquaintance reverence their civilized intruders for the graces and virtues which adorn their character they like their neighbors the chinese lud sud nd japanese will soon boon borl bori be e made madel to entertains entert aina alna wholesome dread of big guns powder and ball and in civi civilia liz jag og barbarians that is ai the krea greatest test point that can be gained I 1 0 LYNCHING is growing in fashion in illinois it leonly is only a short time since that we gave an account of the execution by lynch law of a man by the name of mera who had roasted and whipped his son to death but buk the most recent I 1 instance 11 eta n co that we bave have been seen see bee nora nofa ofa case that threatened to be one of lynch law occurred latel lately yat at saratoga townsal township af pf marshall county ills A mr J ohn john scully had a difficulty with a hired man who disappeared suspicion of murder was aroused and a meeting of over aver eighty people was held to determine whether they would hang scully or wait until they knew whether he deserved hanging banging luckily nor for Scully they decided upon the latter course scully felt tind lind under er obligations to his own fam neck being in danger to find the missing man mall he was successful in finding his supposed victim alive and b hearty earty in bureau county and produced him to the satisfaction it is to be hoped of odthe the eighty citizens who were read ready Y to saen baen sacrifice bli all neighborly feelings upon the altar of justice what a delightful delight fuT state society must be in at saratoga illinois when because an employer has a difficulty with his hired man and the latter moves onn off eighty neighbors collect colle et together and coolly discuss the propriety of lof hanging the employer up to the nearest tree or telegraph pole on suspicion of murder Scull ys narrow escape will add interest hereafter to jo the intercourse ter course and visits bet between weert himself family and neighbors and their family 1 4 it irwill will be BO so pleasant for him to t ink odthe narrow escape that he had that instead of entertaining his guests orlo ost ott eing neing entertained himself as a guest he be might wight have met the fate of a murderer deler leler his hig wife wn been widowed and his ch children idren been bereft of his parental care through the instrumentality of bf the friends with whom he would then be hobnobbing hobnob bing illinois is ii a great country and its people have a q queer queen way vay of doing things sometimes A VERY remarkable scene was witnessed a few weeks ago in the victoria institution london an account of Wh which ichii Is furnished the cincinnati oom corn mercial merc fat fal by its london correspondent in hi his sletter letter dated london july 14 in the Victoria Victoris institution m meetings are held and addresses de livere delevere delivered ati a and n gd essays essaya read the object being to advance nd defend defend I 1 pure christian doctrine kt the close of such addresses or essays t is is customary to invite discussion and to prevent the attendance of the heterodox all who assemble to listen do so by dinv inv invitation leation A A few evenings previous the date of the correspondents 13 letter ietter a very learned doctor of divinity read an essay in defense of miracles and being a man of great repute in the religious world a member of the institution laboring under the impression that his arguments would be kun lun unanswerable answer I 1 gave tickets of invitation to axa aja a ra tlona tiona list preacher and a hindo hindmo 0 the latter said gaid to ito be man of great culture the speaker of the evening read hi his s essay essiy the sentiments of which were endorsed bythe by the baronet baronek occupying the chair chain when the usual invitation to discuss the subject under consideration was extended to those present the audi andi lence lenee ence enee was completely astounded at st seeing eing the hindmo rise and commence to reply to the speakers learned and elaborate arguments the hindmo was not above twenty two or twenty three years of age spoke English like a well educated englishman was a strikingly handsome handsom 1 e man and had on his head bead a green velvet fez from which a tassel dangled reaching to his neck the correspond corre correspondent spon dent of the Oom commercial mercial says 9 H e began by alluding to the striking instances I 1 ns of supernaturalism su i which had been adduced and seemed to labor under a fatal delusion fatal to the harmony of the meeting thab that they bey had been brought forward fo iward simply as hebrew mythology if our reverend instructor bad been quoting the fa fables fabies about jupi tipi ter and mars mara froni the classical dictionary his paper could not nott have met with vt v ry different treatment from the in ian lan ilan for with the air of a man in a philosophical meeting engaged in dis dig seating the superstitions orsome of some oneff one of the tho various asiatic religions he ad juned from the hindmo sacred writings miracles strikingly similar to some recorded in the bible and end new testament such as feeding a large multitude with a very small amount of food the visible ascent from earth to hea heaven li en ae after closing his super I 1 natural illustrations he h said there wa was an increasing tendency among educated people in india to regard such things as mythi mythical calp calf and to detach religion and morality ni from them and as if determine determined id to put the capstone to the horror of his pious hearers he did not wonder that there was a corresponding tendency among christian scholars to separate the beautiful morality of jesus from the miraculous accounts associated with him whose relation to mythology in the end bid was certain such a scene a heat henin chri chii allan alian estimation and laboring under siuea sueh a misapprehension as 16 to the real object of th the e meeting seeking to overthrow or to rebut the authority of christiani aulty so far as it rests on miracles mi was unique for it is safe to say it is without a parallel in the history of christian conventions mentions ent ions fons and the looks of horror which his effort produced on the pious and learned ex of christ christianity lail laii ity present the correspondent adds were very visible and may way certainly be better imagined than described I 1 da THE TUE EMPIRE of brazil is now noa nov the th e stronghold of slavery in the world but there is every promise that its duration there will be very short shorb the emperor is up with the times in his liberal and |