It is a lamentable fact that in the present day the church of God has within her midst but so few pastors after God's own heart; for men endued with gifts and grace are few, very few, like the gleaning of the vintage, or the olive tree with two or three berries on the uppermost boughs, and four or five in the out-most fruitful branches thereof. (Isa. 17:6.) What adds to the burden of those who see and feel the state of Jerusalem spiritual is the apparent indifference of most of her professed children, and the general apathy that is so evidently manifest, and the satisfaction implied or expressed with the present state of things in Zion. During the latter days of William Huntington, that…

Our dear and deeply-lamented friend, Mr. Alexander Barrie Taylor, was taken to his rest early in the morning of August 7. He was born October 18, 1804, and was therefore within a few weeks of being 83. He was born in a cottage on the banks of the Shopie, near Lindock, Perthshire. As he lived at an inconvenient distance from Manchester it was deemed advisable for the friends not to meet at the house, but at the chapel, and for the body to be taken there in the morning of the day of interment; and this was accordingly done, the time of meeting being fixed for half-past one. Mr. Moxon occupied the pulpit and gave out hymn 468, then read 2 Kings 2 and engaged…