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470

Monthly Chronicle.

[CbrUtiMi Woik, Sept. 1, 1863.

ture of the State. It is described as "spacious
and airy, containing bath-rooma, kitchens, and
wash-houses in the basement ; a reception and
dining-hall on the first floor ; a reading and writ-
ing-room, with clerks' offices en the second floor ; a
fine dormitory on the third floor, with 500 beds ;
and a hospital, dispensary, nurses' offices, kc, in
the upper stories." Hither the tired and worn
soldiers are brought ; anr! iirst they undergo a
thorough washing, cleansing, and shaving, and are
provided with clean clothing throughout. Then
they are taken to the upper rooms ; and, after being
fed and lodged, they are \ vovided by Government
with transportatif to their own homes.

The cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c., have
established and maintained for two years, some-
what diflerent institutions, at which regiments on
their way to the seat of war, or on their return, are
entertained in the most hospitable manner, and sent
forward on the'? journey with the most pleasant
recollections.

An incident which has called forth much com-
ment, is the recent trial and condemnation of Rev.
Charles Beecher, by an ecclesiastical council, for
preaching heretical doctrine. Mr. Beecher is pastor
of the Congregational Chiu-ch in Georgetown, Mas-
sachusetts. About one half of the male members
of that church petitioned that a number of the
neighbouring churches, through their pastors and
lay delegates, should examine into the orthodoxy of
the views propounded by Mr. Beecher, respecting
the pre-existence of man, the condition of t ouls
after death, the atonement, and Divine sorrow. On
all of these points the council, with five dissentient
votes (one of which was that of Rev. Edward
Beecher, D.D., of Galesburg, Illinois, a brother of
the accused, and also of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, of Brooklyn), decided that the teachings
in question were at variance with the Scriptural
doctrine. Mr. Beecher, whose whole demeanour
before and during the trial is spoken of as having
been eminently candid i>,nd liecoming a Christian
minister, sepms to hold an apostacy of the race in a
pre-exist>nt state ; to regaid " the sufferings of
Christ as Buasory and argumentative, rather than
vicarious," defining the God-man as "having an
angelic nature, being own and younger brother of
Lucifer, with the divinity of the Second Person of
the Trinity added ; " to believe that the offer of
salvation is made to men again after death ; and
to conceive of God's sorrow over sin and sinners
as a real suffering, thus " presenting to us a God
deficient in his nature, and imperfect and finite in
Ms blessedness."

VICTORIA, VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.— In a
new colony, where the population is sparse, and
churches few, ecclesiastical news of an interesting
and general character cannot be frequently fur-
nished. An occasional letter may help to keep the
religious world mindful of us, and obtain an interest
in the prayers of your correspondents and numerous

readers. Comparatively few come to a gold coimtry
for the purpose of improving their religious condi-
tion. The population is composed of speculators
and traders, ardent in the pursuit of this world's
wealth. Things temporal are sought after with
feverish excitement, as if they were of supreme im-
portance ; while the powers of the world to come
have comparatively little influence, even on those
who pay respectful attention to religious ordinances,
and to whom the good word of God is faithfuUy
preached. Tliis has been the state of things of
late years in every gold country. The baneful ex-
citement will -"pass off by-and-by, and, as in
Australia and California, when immigrants obtain a
stake in the country and resolve to make themselves
a home, they will find leisure for religious reflection,
and be more ready to entertain that blessed evangel
which a thousand times has sweetened and consoli-
dated society, and has proved itself profitable not
only for this life, but for that which is to come. It
appears that at present there is in California a delight-
ful and increasing interest in divine things. Pastors
report favourably of the state of religion in several
districts. Sacred ordinances are more appreciated.
In the smaller towns and settlements, people of
diffc.-ent denominations have in some instances
agreed to hold in abeyance their peculiar idiosyn-
crasies in minor matters, and to aid the majority in
obtaining and supporting a minister among them.

The union of the old and new school Presby-
terians in California is almost consummated. Both
parties appear qmte anxious for it, and only await
the sanction of the Assemblies in the Eastern
States to which they respectively belong. Congre-
gationalists and Presbjrterians are also drawing
more closely together. And an editorial staff of
ministers representing the three denominations re-
ferred to appear to co operate harmoniously in the
publication of a weekly — the Pacific

The Lord Bishop of Columbia leaves for England
by next steamer, after a sojourn of three years in
his extensive mission field. As has been remarked
by the local press, a great change has passed over
these colonies since his arrival. Our auriferous
wealth was then confined to the Fraaer. There
was no Cariboo^ — no Peace River, no Stekin, no
coast routes, no settlers in this colony beyond the
district of Victoria — but two schools on this island,
and none in British Columbi.-^. Our town, from a
few shanties, has become a rich, ^topulous, and well-
built city, our harbour thronged with ships.
Roads radiate into the island. Thriving settle-
ments dot the colony, whilst the frail canoe of the
Indian has given place to a fleet of coasters. Great
roads traverse British Columbia. Hamlets have
become towns. On the tops of our Sierras, where
white man's foot, three years ago, never trod, there
are now flourishing towns, inhabited by a popula-
tion unsurpassed for dauntless enterprise and thrift,
and where the earth, as if struck with the Midas
wand of the magician, has been changed into
fabulous heaps of gold, making the poor suddenly

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Monthly Chronicle.

471

rich, and attractiDg thouBandB from tbe utmoat
parts of the earth. The Bishop has visited every
inhabited part of his diocese, comprising 250,000
square miles. He ha" seen as much of these
colonies as any traveller on this northern coast,
and it may be supposed that he will carry with
him to England a treasury of interesting facts, and
that favourable issues will attend his visit. He
goes to England, we believe, with the intention of
obtaining, if possible, an Episcopal coadjutor for
this colony (Vancouver's Island), and it is to be hoped
he may find a friend of the Church disposed to
follow the noble example of Miss Coutts in found-
ing a new See. Being in possession, too, of one of
the finest sites for a cathedral on this coast, he may
be expected to do a little in the begging line, and
we wish him great success.

The Presbyterians are building a handsome
church, which is nearly finished. They are about
to erect another in the capital of British Columbia.
The Wesleyans piupose to enlarge their fine church
in this city, to accommodate their growing congre-
gation.

All the churches have improved of late, not
in numbers merely, but in appearance also. A
year ago very few females were to be seen in our
churches ; now a goodly proportion of the fair sex
attend, which lends agreeable relief to our religious
gatherings. It is melancholy to relate that there
are sixty dram-shops in this city, which comprises
little over 4000 inhabitants. To counteract their
influence, three or four temperance societies have
been organised in succession in as many years. It
has been found rather difficult to fabricate a sub-
stantial association out of the heterogeneous elements
which compose even the more promising portion of
our population. There are among us, however,
hopeful advocates of the cause, who despair not of
its final triumph. The order of Good Templars has
been lately introduced. It originated, I believe, oi»
this coast, and with its signs, passwords, and im-
posing paraphernalia, as well as by attention to
destitute abstainers, it is a rather popular institu-
tion, supported by a band of brothers, pledged in
sacred compact to promote temperance, and abstain
from strong drink on piinciple.

The native tribes have been rather troublesome of
late to settlers in remote districts. It is estimated
that not less than. 5000 of the natives have been
cut off by small-pox during the past year. Some ol
the tribes ascribe their mortality to the colonists, —
who, it must be acknowledged, brought the con-
tagion last spring from California, — and i}.ey are
beginning to retaliate by robbery, arson, and
miirder. The gunboats ave occasionaly commis-
sioned to bring the criminals to justice ; and when
a tribe refuses to deliver up the guilty, the savages
are spared, but their encampment or village, which
is generally near the beach, is burned, and their
canoes destroyed. Nearly 20,000 of them have
been vaccinated chiefly by French priests, who set
a noble example in their self-denying efforts to

instruct and elevate the savage. All that has
been done for them by Protestant missionaries is
hardly worth mentioning. A hopeful work has
been inaugurated by Duncan, near Fort Simpson.
A number of the better disposed natives of that
locality have followed him to a new settlement, and
under his direction are leaning the more useful
arts of civilised life. The Bif hop has just returned
from that station, having baptized during his short
visit some twenty of the tribe. The Indian mission
in this city has been abandoned, and the agent is
now occupied in pastoral vork among the settlers.
Many excellent judges are of opinion that Bishop
Hills, having large funds ut command, might have
attempted much more for the Indians than he has
done, and not have left them almost entirelv to
the teaching of French priests. By-and-by they
will understand who have been tlieir best friends,
and it may be the old story of Celt and Sassenach
over again. One reason doubtless why more has
not been done has been owing to the want of suit-
able missionary agents. And, indeed, when I think
of the filth, the stupidity, and the brutal impulse of
the poor degraded Indian, I am not able to conceive
of any calling which requires more singleness of aim
and greater self-denial than that of an isolated
Christian reformer in an Indian village, always ac-
cessible to savages, and acting towards them so as
to secure their confidence, without which an Eliott
would have laboured in vain. Not a few of them
about town have become useful servants and excel-
lent mechanics. But as a race they are disappear-
ing rapidly, and it is the opinioa of many that at
the same ratio of mortality which has prevailed
within the last lew years, a red man will be a rarity
in the next generation. I have just room for a
little story which will show that the native is a
genuine specimen of humanity. They are polyga-
mists. In obedience to the Roman Catholic priest
a "wife of a yc >uig chief left him, and without asking
her spiritual adviser, married another. For a wife
to forsake her husband, and particularly a chief, is
considered disgraceful to the last degree ! The
young chief resented and was shot in the scuffle.
The big chief, his father, proclaimed war. The
Roman Catholic bishop, from whom I had the story,
was called in an mediator. The old man privately
requested him to say that his murdered son had
gone to heaven, but that the soul of the murderer
should never get there. Such a statement to the
people, he said, would comfort his heart more than
a present of forty blankets. He took the blankets
as a ransom and renounced all intention of war for
that offence. But what assurance the Bishop gave
him of the future state of the departed I am unable
to say. With some difficulty the warriors were
brought to terms, and an entire day was spent in
effecting a truce among the tribes. The Devastation
has just returned from a trip North, having seized
nearly 1000 gallons of rum from smugglers, who
have proved a greater plague than the smallpox to
Ifhe poor Indian.

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