Died, at Mount Holly, New-Jersey, April, the Rev. GEORGE Y. MOREHOUSE, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, which position he had occupied for the last forty-four years.

Died, in Cumberland, Maryland, on Thursday, April 21st, the Rev. Dr. WILLIAM W. ARNETT, formerly of the Female Episcopal Institute, of the city of Baltimore, and Rector of the Church of the Mediator. The Western Episcopalian speaks

thus:

On the 21st of April, prox., the Rev. William W. Arnett, D.D., Rector of Emanuel Church, Cumberland, Md., departed this life, at the age of 44 years. Mr. Arnett was formerly connected with the Methodist Protestant Church. His convictions of right and duty subsequently led him to join the Protestant Episcopal Church. After a brief residence at the Diocesan Theological Seminary, in Gambier, he was admitted to the order of Deacons, by Bishop McIlvaine, in February, 1839, and to that of the priesthood during the same year.

He officiated with much acceptance for several years at Circleville and Dayton, in this Diocese. His labors, particularly during the last years of his ministry at Milwaukee and other important points, were attended with much success, and especially near the close of his life, it pleased the Great Head of the Church to bless his efforts for the salvation of souls, in an uncommon degree. For several years previous to his death, he suffered from an affection of his throat, which, though partially relieved by the temporary suspension of his public duties, was never entirely removed.

During the past winter, he visited the southern part of the United States and Cuba, in the hope of obtaining relief from his increasing malady; but finding himself growing worse, he returned home, and a rapid consumption having seized him, he soon closed his useful life in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope, and in the enjoyment of that peace of God which passeth all understanding. To his flock in Cumberland he was greatly endeared, and his memory will be fondly cherished by them. Mr. Arnett was possessed of a mild and amiable disposition, and of engaging manners. His deportment was uniformly modest, unassuming, and attractive. Possessed of a discriminating mind, and an ardent thirst for knowledge, he was an earnest and diligent student of the word of God-evangelical in his theological views, and eminently Catholic in his spirit. He has left a wife and five children to mourn their irreparable loss.

Died, at Polo, Ogle county, Ill., May 2d, the Rev. CHARLES J. TODD, Rector of Trinity Parish, aged 50 years. The deceased had labored in the ministry of our Church for between twenty and thirty years. Early in life he settled in Joliet, in this State, and there performed the duties of the ministerial calling for several years. He was subsequently a pastor in Huntington, Ct., and at one period in Ogdensburgh, New-York. A few years since he again removed to Illinois, and served the parishes at Dixon, Grand Detour, and Polo, in succession.

Mr. Todd's long labors were blessed to the upbuilding of the cause of Christ, and his loss will be deeply regretted.-- Western Churchman.

Died, at his residence in Bedford county, Va., on Sunday morning, May 29th, the Rev. NELSON SALE.

In the ensuing article we propose to exhibit a popular view of the argument which demonstrates the Necessity of a Revelation.

By popular, we mean that view of the argument, which can be appreciated by the common mind, as distinguished from that view which requires for its appreciation the mind of the learned, and by revelation, we mean those truths concerning God and man, which could never be known by the latter without an express communication from the former; or which hu. man reason, of itself, could never carry beyond the light of mere possibility or conjecture. Moral and religious truths, which are discoverable by human reason, or the certainty of which the human mind may of itself reasonably know, may be divinely taught in connection with a revelation; and when so taught, may come with peculiar clearness, beauty, and force. They may be clothed with the authority of inspiration, but they can not strictly be called a revelation. That only is to be considered as revealed which man could not otherwise know, or which, of himself, he could see in no other light than that of mere possibility or conjecture.

The argument which demonstrates the necessity of a revela. VOL. VI.-40

tion in this sense of the term, is, of course, addressed to those who admit the Being of God, as the Intelligent Designer, the Almighty Creator, and the Righteous Governor of the universe. For those who deny this fundamental principle of all religion, it is enough to say that our business is not with them. We deal at present with those only who stand on at least one ground common to themselves and those who receive the Christian revelation.

We say the Christian revelation, because we shall spend no time in discussing the question between that and any other alleged revelation. We shall at once take it for granted that the question lies, not between the Bible and some other book as a professed revelation, but-between the Bible and no revelation.

From these simple preliminaries, we proceed directly to our subject. It falls naturally under two general heads: first, the necessity of a revelation to communicate sufficiently clear, full, and certain views of the character and will of God, and of the duty and destiny of man; and, second, the necessity of a reve lation to give these views their full intended effect.

I. First, then, the necessity of a revelation to communicate sufficiently clear, full, and certain views of the character and will of God, and of the duty and destiny of men.

In handling this topic, we shall not begin with the antiquity of our race, and run forward on the course of time to see what human reason has been able to do in finding out God. So intimately have the influences of the Bible become mixed with every thing moral and religious, and so difficult, rather so impossible, would it be, by such a forward process, to separate those influences from the simple unaided workings and discoveries of the human mind itself, that we choose to begin with the present and to run backwards on the course of time, for the purpose of making the more effectually a separation which, in order to do justice to this subject, has become indispensable. We must, so far as it is possible, conceive ourselves, in all respects, in the condition which would have been ours, had the Bible, as an alleged revelation from God, never exist ed. Let us make the attempt.

Take away the Bible: suppose it not merely annihilated, but never to have been in existence, either in whole or in part, either in written documents or in traditionary substitutes. Suppose that not a line of either Old or New Testament, or any substitute therefor, as a revelation from God, had ever been written, or in any way communicated to man. What have we now done? Simply taken a book out of existence? or merely got rid of the fact that such a book, or some equivalent for such a book, ever existed? This is the least part of the subtraction! We have wrought a change in the moral and intellectual condition of the human race, of which the mind can. with difficulty conceive. We have taken away the life, from beginning to end, of the Hebrew State; all the spirit and soul which the ancient Scriptures ever imparted to that most wonderful, that most widely and deeply and permanently influential people that ever trode the earth. We have, moreover, taken away the whole Christian dispensation, as founded on those Ancient Scriptures and developed under the New. We have taken away the Christian Sabbath, with all the powerful influences which it has exerted in improving and sustaining in the public mind a rectified and pure moral conscience, in exciting and cultivating among men habits of calm and sober thought, and in thus giving quick and efficacious action to wholesome discipline, to salutary law and to good government. We have taken away all the public ordinances and holy rites of our religion—the Christian worship of Almighty God, with all its sobering, hallowing, invigorating, and comforting energies. We have taken away the Christian ministry, with all its manifold labors, and heavenly instructions, and incalculable power in turning sinful men from the way of transgression to holiness and peace. In short, we have taken away what has hitherto stood as the visible Church of God, founded on alleged Revelation, the Recipient, the Keeper, and the Distributor of a written Bible, we have taken it clean away, and with it the whole system of outward means for maintaining a spiritual communication between earth and heaven. Since, without a written Bib e, or some equivalent, a visible Church could never have existed; or if some such thing had been