647, BROADWAY. THE TRADE SUPPLIED BY THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, 119 AND 121, NASSAU STREET. Cambridge: Printed by John Wilson and Son. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by JAMES MILLER, In the Clerk's Office of the District pplied pq W. V. 8. also publishes the works of John Handsome discount allowed to Clergymen, Libraries supplied promptly, and on the most Book of Vespers. An Order of Evening Worship, with Select Psalms and Hymns. 12mo, imitation morocco, $1.75; antique cloth, $1.50. OSGOOD, REV. S. Student Life. Letters and Recollections by a Young Friend. 12mo, cloth, 75 cents. Studies in Christian Biography. Cloth. $1.25. biner hd pandd THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. NOVEMBER, 1869. ART. I. THE HOPE OF THE SOUTH. WHEN a sagacious physician examines a patient who is struggling with various forms of disease and exhaustion, he looks earnestly to see what powers remain unshattered, on which to build his hopes of recovery. He knows that many maladies may be overcome and much depletion repaired, if the vital forces only remain and can be brought into vigorous action. The present condition of the South affords a similar object of study. There are many and grievous evils, there is terrible waste and dilapidation; we look eagerly to see what forces still remain unimpaired, which may restore the body politic to soundness and health. Our own observation has been mainly confined to the Atlantic States; but from personal observation there, and much intercourse with certain classes of the people, we do feel that there are signs of new growth, and indications of vigorous life, enough to make us hopeful for the future, if not over-sanguine in the present. re The colored ministers, in their churches, pray for the " construction" of their people's souls instead of their "regeneration." We hope the word, driven out from the Church, will find its way into politics. It is the regeneration of the South by its own internal life, not its reconstruction by outward forces, that can alone make it again a power among the nations. VOL. LXXXVII. -NEW SERIES, VOL. VIII. NO. III. 21 |