This parson was Rev. Mr. Harrison, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Knoxville. He held his prayer-meeting, and, assisted by several old clericals, made a desperate effort to raise the blockade! God, in answer to their prayer, gave them a lift on Roanoke Island, some weeks after the prayer-meeting, when the entire Rebel forces were either killed or taken ́ prisoners by Burnside's blockading squadron.

This man Harrison is the same preacher who boasted in his pulpit that Jesus Christ was a Southerner, born on Southern soil, and so were His apostles, except Judas, whom he denominated a Northern man! Speaking of the Bible, he said he would sooner have a Bible printed and bound in hell, than one printed and bound north of Mason & Dixon's line!

The Prayer-Meeting Sign.

It is well known to our citizens that a Union PrayerMeeting has been kept up for several years in this city by the several religious denominations, and that they occupy a room on the corner of Gay and Main Streets, where there is a modest sign out, with the inscription, in bronzed or gold-leaf letters, "Union Prayer-Meeting Room." Not long since, some troops from one of the Cotton States were passing through the streets, looking at the town, and, burning with indignation for the old defunct Union, could not bear to see a sign up with a word upon it that would call the

Union to mind. They halted, looked at it, and swore, by the God who made them, "That d-d thing must come down!" One of the Secession leaders of the town approached them, and assured them that the allusion on the sign was not to the Federal Union, but to a union of denominations. But the infuriated advocates of Southern rights brought it down, and destroyed it on the street.

Forming a Union Church.

A gentleman of character and influence suggests that portions of us, belonging to different denominations, and even to no sect, organize a new congregation for religious worship, and that we employ some man of talents and piety to preach to us, irrespective of creeds or confessions of faith. We like this idea, and bring it before our readers as a well-timed suggestion. We want some man to instruct us all in the common gospel of God our Saviour, who will not mix up the sacred truths of holy writ with the abominable heresy of Secession, who will refrain from denouncing one party in his congregation as traitors to their country and their God, and who will not attack private families in public prayer. We have among us-brought disgrace upon the church, destroyed confidence in the ministry, disbanded our congregations, and broken up the social and religious ties that formerly bound us together. It is useless for us to meet in our churches on the Sabbath, put on long,

pious faces, offer up long prayers, hand round the bread and wine, and then pass out in society and vilify each other as a set of pickpockets, liars, and traitors, and keep up this holy and patriotic warfare until we meet again the next Sabbath. The fool, the wayfaring man, and the untutored African can see that we are wicked, and on the high-road to the devil! Let us break up our hypocritical organizations called churches, and out of a half-dozen of them make up one new one, whose pastor and members shall neither preach, exhort, nor pray any thing connected with party politics.

This was the command of Christ to His apostles, and through them, in all time to come, to His ministers. The nourishment given in the earlier days of the gospel dispensation was any thing but what it is now, under the improvements of our age. "Repent and believe the gospel," was the first dish; "Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure," was the second course. The dessert, which was the closing out of the meal, was to the effect, that "if ye do these things ye shall never perish.'

Then we were not prepared to see our Southerr preachers, so early as 1861, following the bad example of these false teachers, by preaching Secession,