"Sabbath, 4 o'clock. Preached on the tow-boat at the foot of Broad-street. Feel as though I should follow it up. With Father Brown I commenced preaching to boatmen this spring on the East River side, near the Washington market.

"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and to Saturday getting ready to study anatomy.

This he pursued for some time, attending the annual lectures given to students in the medical college. He was shocked at the principles he there heard promulgated to the students; and often said, no inducements could prevail on him to send a son to such a place for instruction. The levity over the dead bodies carried there for dissection, was calculated to harden the heart of the inexperienced youth, and fit him for any work of barbarity. But the principles were what most filled him with horror. One fact may illustrate.

A lady who kept a boarding-house in New-York, received into her family a youth of nineteen to board, and soon found he was under medical treatment in consequence of lewdness. She inquired of the gentleman who introduced him to her house, if he knew his situation when he initiated him into her family. The answer was, he did. He had been well acquainted with his father, who was a plain, honest farmer, on the Green Mountains in Vermont; that this son had had little or no opportunities of knowing the snares of the wicked, and had come to New-York a few months since, and was taken unwell. He consulted a physician, and the physician told him he must visit a

The most of Mr. M'Dowall's tour to the west is copied for the benefit of country readers, that they may see the danger the country is in from its own internal resources; and that the cities are not the only evil-doers in the work of pollution. Did cities have no supplies from the country, their stock would soon fail. Were there no country

merchants to visit the cities, and purchase their lewd prints and books, and visit the houses of infamy, the inducement to traffic in the chastity of women would be greatly lessened.

brothel as the remedy, and best remedy. He did so, and the result was sickness, repentance, and shame. The lady went to Mr. M'Dowall to ask advice, saying, the youth had confessed his folly with tears, and wished to stay, because he felt friendless, and the house was a religious one, and he dreaded temptation. But do you believe, she insisted, that a physician in the city, however depraved, would dare give such advice? M'Dowall answered with his usual decision, "Yes, I know it. I will tell you a fact. I last year attended part of a course of medical lectures by the first physicians in New-York, and students from various parts of the country attended. I heard these intelligent physicians in their lectures recommend the same to youth from all parts of our land, and pretend to base their assertions on physiological principles. I withstood them warmly, and incurred their displeasure."

He now felt it his duty to place before the public his situation in regard to Messrs. Wheelwright and Starr, and the Benevolent Society. He writes thus: "It is time for me to speak for myself. Moral reform is greatly suffering by rumors afloat through the country of my dishonesty: I have heard much in my travels, the summer and autumn, which has been truly painful. Some are highly incensed at me, and some are demanding the money to be refunded which the Benevolent Society have claimed, and all are in ignorance of the real truth."

Here a difficulty arose, though not new, yet not the less difficult to surmount. He had no money. The religious papers in the city refused to open their columns to publish his communications, and the penny papers were his only alternative. And these would not publish them except as advertisements, which was very expensive. In this dilemma, what could he do? His companion said,

"Pray, and see what the Lord will do; if it is right you should do it, money will be sent."

In a day or two from this, he found in the Post Office a letter from a missionary in China, the Rev. Mr. with a draft on a bank of the city of fifty dollars.

He unhesitatingly commenced, and from time to time, as he needed, donations were sent in. The Moral Reform Society did something for his support, a widow did something, and a quakeress lady did not neglect to supply a little aid, so that he struggled on till the seventh number of his defence called forth the attention of the third presbytery, and he soon found himself a criminal at their bar.

The details of that trial could not be interesting to the public in this place, but should any feel anxious to examine the merits of that case, the trial is already in print in a pamphlet by itself. These were dark days—days which the few solitary friends who dared to stand by him will not soon forget. Said one,

"I could do nothing but thank God that I had not been left to be among his persecutors."

Another remarked, "I could think of nothing but Christ before Pilate's bar."

A third, "I envy M'Dowall his crown."

And a fourth, who looked on his care-worn dejected countenance, "I wish that his martyrdom would be speedily finished, and he be spared these lingering, relentless tortures !"

Reader, you have read the story of Gethsemane; you have heard the Savior pray, "Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done." Then follow M'Dowall to his loved altar of fa

* The letter containing the draft has been lost, and the name forgotten.

+ These friends were the Rev. Mr. Leavitt, Esquire Brown, and two or three others, and a few women who attended the trial. Mr. Leavitt staid in the assembly till he found it in vain to maintain the contest any longer, and retired. Esquire Brown was his faithful adviser and assistant through all his litigated contests, ably and boldly defending him in the face of all his gainsayers; and this without any reward.

mily prayer, and hear him repeat the same words; hear him, while his soul is "exceeding sorrowful," say, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

He retired from the assembly; he waited his sentence in his family, little doubting the result, for he had seen the bitter sneer, he had heard the "revilings of many," and felt they were determined not "to let him go." It came; he bowed in prayerful submission, and seemed, as the rolling thunder passed by, to smile through his tears; to gather up his soul and say, Lord, I am ready, assign me my work, and, however humble, I will not be idle in thy vineyard.

CHAPTER XXX.

The result and Appeal.

It is hoped that his Appeal, which follows, will be attentively read, because the story is there told, by his own pen, better than any biographer could do it. The facts there stated cannot be refuted; and though to some they may appear dry, yet they are awfully momentous. Though they tell you not his sufferings, yet they tell you the cause of his sufferings. They tell you some of the 'strange acts" of those who sat in dignified state in that sanhedrim, and why they found it in their hearts to depose him from the ministry. They tell you in essence, if not the same words, that it was not in the power of their court to "show mercy to a criminal." They tell you in essence, that the spirit of persecution is the same in all ages, whether in a Popish Inquisition, a Presbyterian Assembly, a Baptist Association, or a Methodist Conference; and they tell you, too, the dangerous influence of woman,

when her influence is not on the side of truth and justice. Again, it is requested, read this Appeal-read it for the sake of him who sleeps in the dust, and has carried his cause to the court of heaven, where he will have a fair and impartial hearing

Read it, because in distant parts of the land many were induced to believe that so many great and good men and women would not be liable to err in judgment or in practice in a matter of so much moment.

Read it, because you may there be taught that "it is better to trust in God than put confidence in man, yea, in princes; and that there may be found practical demonstration that great men are not always wise.

PROTEST, COMPLAINT AND APPEAL, Of the Rev. John Robert M'Dowall, of the Third Presbytery of New-York-against that Presbytery-to the Synod of New-York.

(CHAPTER I.)

Circular Letter-newspapers containing my "Defence" laid on the table-Mr. Wheelwright and two or three ladies of the Female Bible Society requested the Presbytery to meet and act on my "Defence"-Mr. Wheelwright offers to prosecute me-Presbytery prevents him, and then they prosecute me on the ground of Common Fame-Rev. Mr. White's objections to Common Fame-my opposition to Common Fame-Committee of Inquiry appointedthe newspapers referred to them-this committee reports the four charges contained in the Long Island Farmer of July 29, 1835— Rev. Messrs. Ebenezer Mason and H. G. Ludlow, committee of prosecution-charges in the Long Island Farmer omitted in the indictment-private complaints of Wheelwright and associates tabled, wrongfully, as the complaints of Common Fame.

FATHERS AND BRETHREN: The Third Presbytery of NewYork were convened on the 23d day of February last past, by virtue of the following circular letter: