riicr ulut. LETTER FROM EAST TENNESSEE. Reply to niany Letters—Papers Bearing False Witness—Quiet of East Tennessee—Too Much Pardon for Comfort or Safety— Movement •to Organize East Tennessee into a Separate State—Cumberland Revivals —Rebel Views of Ecclesiastical Desolation —Rebel Elder handsomely Flanked—Ru- Inored Programme—lennessee Papers, &c. MARYVILLE E. TENN., March 20, 1866. MR. EDITOR :—I have received many letters from persons In the Northwest and from other part's of the country, making inquiries about the safety and quiet they would enjoy should they move their families to East Tennessee. The writers were manifestly laboring under a misapprehension of the actual condition of things among us. Turning to several numbers of what Rev. J. S. Craig calls the un- Christian Observer, and to a few other rebel papers, I found so many misrepresentations and false statements about the whole region from W - astringtou Couoty to Hamilton, that I felt Du huger r•toprised that such inquiries :-hould be made. If all knew how " uereli-upon-able." Dr. Converse is, his fabrications ,would not disturb them. The truth is, that East Tennessee is nore quiet than any other part of the State. Military forces are all withdrawn from -us, and civil authority has resumed its sway in every county. Colored tee ,timony is allowed without question ; the Freedmen's Bureau has need to assert but a very limited jurisdiction; colored schools, day-schools and Sabbath-schools, are springing up from Taylorsville to Chattanooga, and move on without in terruption ; remarkable revivals of reli gion are prevailing, and if quietindustry and good behavior will secure general prosperity, in spite - of croakers and those who bear false witness, iwe may Confi dently look for, a good time coming. Many feel as the New. Market people resolved a few days ago, that the Tresi 'dent! has ;been pardoning too many of the leading traitors and pardoning them much too fast, and as the masses in this end of the State are determined never to be ruled by traitors, there is quite a strong movement in favor of erecting East Tennessee into a separate State, in fullaympathy 4` witilK Corigress and the nation,. A public r , eeeting has just been called' at the Court `l[olll3B in Blount County, to take`some action with refer ence to this matter. The disloyal press ismorking 'at its old Oracle of 1860 and 1861 to mislead the' people and to stir them up to sectional hatred and sectional strife, and the ministers 'of the Macon Assembly and the Sonthern Methodist Conferences may - fdrnent difficulties as much as they can, to justify - themselves . for their Confederate • schism, but the masses will have as - little fear of the term "radical," as they had of the term Lincolnite, in the earlier stages of the war. Northern, bayonets helped bring deliverance from Southern despotism, and any represented by, those bayonets may find an asylum and a'happy home in East Tennessee.• We are slow to de nounce the Congress' that stood so grandly= by the army and navy . through the four long years of bloody strife. . The Cumberland Presbyterian Church,* - the Methodist Episcopal Church, and many of the Baptist-Church, stand 'solid with us on loyal ground:, The Cumber land Churches in Greene "bounty have been having wonderful, revivals. Over five hundred persons have been convert ed within a few months ,at their meet ings, conducted by Rev. Mr. Holsinger and Rev. Mr: Dobson, So that their churches there were never so prosper ous as now: The Methodists at Knox ville are ecjoying a precious revival while I ain writing. It surpasses any thing witnessed since the commencement of the war. A writer in a Richmond paper speaks of the, desolate condition of the churches in the Synod of Tennessee. This deso late condition arises from the fact that none of them are 'kvillitrg to be served by a rebel preacher. Whether we look at Holston, Union, or Kingston Presby iery, we will find that, the principal part • of the churches are supplied by ministers of their own choice, and 'ministers, too, who are very acceptable.becense of their . piety and efficiency. 'take the whole ;field over, and I believe, all things con nidered, the people are giving more in proportion to their means for the support •-of the Gospitl than ever before. Their 'Christianity is becoming more active and pervasive. Prayer-meetings are being more generally attended. Sabbath schools are growing in number and in .usefulness; thelecture-roomis thronged with more listeners, and increasing mul , titndes attend the Sabbath services. I have no doubt that each , of these state ments will be confirmed at the spring meeting of our Presbyteries. Kingston, Presbytery will meet at Cleveland the ' first Thursday of April; Holston, the sqcond Friday, at Jonesboro; and Union, the third Friday, at Maryville, and we look for *representatives from all the .churches. Good' judges state, looking over all East Tennessee, that ten times as many people attend religious services as at any time from 1862 to the surren der of Lee's army. It . the revival of Sabbath-schools, the reorganizing of prayer-meetings, the gathering of con gregations, the supply of the pulpit with godly men, as rebel preachers withdraw from We field, and s genuine revivals of . may be desolation, let the good'work go one The same write,r just referred to, speaks of the Northern minister at Knoxvill% as having abandoned the ground after nine months' trial. Had he known how much the fact, that the minister spoken of suffered himself to be chosen Moderatdr of a rebel Presbytery, had to do with bis leaving, he might possibly have had another argument to support his rebel view of the ineradica ble loyalty of this great missionary field. An attempt was made, some time ago, on the part of a feturned rebel elder, to run off one of our churches to the Macon Confederate Assembly; but. he , was caught in the act, and his strategy failed. Commending him for his enterprise, we hold him up t%the charitable sympathies of those who have reason to know him. It is stated here, by those who pro fess to be confidential relations with the Executive, that the Congressional test oath is to be broken down—that the rebel States will then march their re, presentatives to Washington; that if they are held at bay, Andrew Johnson will be the candidate for the President, and Wm. H. Seward for Vice-President, (as he and Thurlbw weed, of the New York Times, owe a grudge to the Union men for their .disappointment at Chica go); and that if, counting the Northern Democrats and the electors of the seced ed States, they . have a majority, the President will seat himself witik the sword. I give you the programme merely - for what it 'is worth. Whatever may be thought of the unhappy speech of February 22d, many here, who voted for Mr. Johnson, will be slow to believe that Be will lend himself to any such desperate undertaking.. Still, it must betconceded that some who, in former years, -voted against him, have their misgivings. We have now - thirty papers in the State, and six of them are set down as uncompromisingly loyal. The opinion is often expressed that the public good would .have been greatly promoted if the President, in his amnesty proclamation, had excepted rebel editors. As'few of the Old SohPol ministers South feel like returning to the National General Assembly, and thus try to "bring forth fruits meet for repentance," some of our people are inquiring what effect this may have upon the reunion .of all loyal Presbyterians throughout the community, into one grand body. The great gathering at St. Louis may not consummate matters, and yet there may be a tendency in that direction. Rejoicing that Christ Jesus is bead over all things forthe_good of the church, I am yours very truly, SAMUEL SAWYER. LETTER FROM AUGUSTA, GA: This is one of bhe •few cities of the South that was , not ravaged by war. In Sherman's grand march to the sea, Augusta was spared, while Atlanta was destroyed. In Atlanta there is loyalty, in Augusta comparatively ;tone. Those that have suffered least seem to be the most bitter enemies of the North. The most satisfactory conversations with Southern people that I have had, were soldiers in the Confederate army. Knowing the horrors of war they heartily desire peace, - althoukh 'accepting with seeming reluct ance the terms offered. Bat the clergy, I am sorry to say, are much less favor able toward the North. Their spirit is illustrated by the fol lowing incident. Last December the Rev. Mr.• Martindale, of Cleveland, Ohio, duly . appointed a missionary, by ,the General Assembly of the 0. S. Presby terian Church,' was sent to this city to engage in 'missionary labors without re-` spect to persons or color. Coldly re ceived by his, white brethren, and by them denied all fellowship, he , was obliged to commence his labors among the freedmen, who were grateful and hungry for the word of life. A colored church, which did not number a congregation of a dozen persons, invited him to occupy their pulpit. His labors :were greatly blessed, the house was soon or,owded and a deep religious interest awakened. At this juncture, the Presbyterian white church ? being the owners of the bidlding in which this , congregation worshipped, ordered thedoors closed, and thus ended Mr- Martindale's labors with the people. , Mr. Martindale has returned to the North, and is now-labor ing in Cleveland. In this State there are six thousand five hundred children and adults in the Freedmen's schools. Mr. Rberhart, the State Superintendent, informs me that he hopes before the close of the yea' to establish" schools in all the principal towns of the State. In one of the schools, which I visited, I saw bitting beside the smaller children, an old man trying to spell out his first reading les son. "How old are you?" I asked, with much interest. "Seventy-six years," was the reply. "Do yon" think you are a Christian ?" I continued. " I hope I am ; I haVe tried to serve Jesus for forty-two years." " Why are you so anions to learn to read ?" " Because the Bible is the bread of life to my hungry soul." Did not the Master say, Feed my lambs, feed my sheep ? ,Why has this'old man, for forty years been starving for the word of life ? Be cause slavery said for the negro, " ignor ance is bliss.", I heard a Presbyterian clergyman say, "the war has not changed my views in regard to slavery. I believe it is a divine institution." I need not add that he bitterly denounced the Bureau and the Freedmen's Schools. Yet I have been often told by Southern people, the North should , entrust the, education of the Freedmen to their former masters, who understand the negro character. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1866. Having lived with him and been his pro tectors, they are better qualified to educate him for the new sphere in which freedom has placed him. While riding in the cars a few days ago, a Southern gentleman with much eloquence and earnestness' tried"to con vince the writer that the North should leave the Freedmen to their care, claim ing that we do not understand his character, that they were his only true friends. A few moments after, turning in my seat, I saw sitting behind me a Freedman,' whose wretched appearance excited my sympathy, scarcely covered with a few rags, with head and feet bare, he lay in his seat soundly sleeping; my companion, with whom I had this conversation, seeing me viewing him with commiseration, hissed in my ear, "Don't he look more like a monkey than a man." Need 'I say that this heartless remark proved hoiv falsAvere his pro fessions of friendship for the colored man ? The ex-slaveholder regards him mdre- a brute than a man ; while we, knowing him less as an animal and be lieving him made in the image of God— look upon him as a man. Then who should be entrusted with his education ? There.can be but one answer—thlse that recognize his manhood. E. H. H. THE SABBATH QUESTION 114 DETROIT. The authorities of Detroit have been tinkering with and relaxing the Sunday Law of that city. We have received the following .copy of a remonstrance addressed to them:— To the Hon. the Common Council of the City of Detroit : We, the citizens of Detroit, loyal to its best interests, sensitive to its honor, and anxious for the preservation of its good name do re spectfully, in the exercise of our civil and legal rights, present this our remonstrance against the action of a majority of the Alder men, in a recent attempt by what is called the new amended Sunday Ordinance, ,to legalize the desecration of the Sabbath. We object to it because, Ist. We feel that it is a direct insult offered to the Christian portion • of the commnnfty in alLevangelical denominations whoie , religious and conscientious convictions, hitherto sus tained and hOnored by the autheritiei of this City. and State, it puts to scorn. 2d. Because it reflects contempt upon the memory and characters of the wise and good, the early settlers of these United Stites, our anceltors in generations past, who valiied the Sabbath and, sought to preserve it by laws which it is proposed to set aside by this hasty, ill-advised and highly inexcusable amendment. 3d. Because it has not bgen asked for by the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens,—nor has it been proved to be unjust, or injurious to the public good, to enforce the Sunday Ordinance of the city, and the .State Ordinances 'be queathed to us by a former generation; but it is especially offensive from the fact so oh, vious to all that the recent dangerous pro cedure has been instigated, prosecuted and now attempted to be initiated to meet the wishes and interests of a faction that have enjoyed the asylum afforded them freely and generously, known to be hostile to the re straints of Christianity, and seeking to snb vert its institutions. 4th. Because we believe it to be unjust and unequal, tending, if not designed, to make the whole community subservient to the, in terests of the liquor dealers, and those whose vocations debauch our youth, engender misery and vice; and are so corrupting and injurions as to need the restraints and penalties of criminal justice rather than the patronage of the masses for which the so-called affiend went provides. "' sth. Because the Sabbath is the day for rest, and the whole of it is needed by the laboring, whether in mind or body, for the health of , their bodies and improvement of their minds, in and by means of the repose of this sacred day,. and the use of its privileges, and not by inviting to prolonged excitement and , scenes of revelry and debauchery, by which many are robbed of their hard earned wages, and disqualified more or less dining a season for industrial employment. 6th. 'Because the tendency .and inevitable result of this innovation, if carried out, will be to promote intemperance and crime and in vite to lawlessness and depredation, peace and good order of society, and in crease enormously the burden of our taxes already sufficiently onerous. 7th. Because the history of the rise and progress of this movement proves that it is part and parcel of the attempt made to neu tralize and subvert the system of police which \ the State has organized far the necessary ends of criminal justice, and without which we should be in danger night and day from the hands of the burglar, the pickpocket, the" murderer, the incendiary, the lawless and violent. Bth. Because it conflicts directly with the laivs of the State, and is therefore unconsti tutional, being under a false pretext of regu lating the observance of Sunday, actuating rebellion by arraying the municipal against the State authority, as did the canfederate rebels the State against the Federal Govern ment, 9th. Because it is in itself and its provisions contradictory ; and anti-Democratic, being an attempt to imitate the regulations by foreign monarchical Governments over what neither man nor God has given them autho rity'; and bears also falsity upon the face of it; for - while claiming to regulate the observ ance of Sunday, it furnishes a license to dese crate the greatest part of the Sabbath, and, to maintain a traffic which both the law and the constitution of the State prohibit. 10th. Because wefeel that the good sense and Christian virtue Of the community haVe been outraged by those who have drafted this amended ordinance, 'and carried it through the Council. - We enter this our solemn remonstrance against this covert attempt to destroy the Sabbath, and we pray to be protected from the cupidity, selfishness and lawlessness which would sacrifice the public good, the morals of youth, and the peace of our city to private interests embarked in illegal and monstrous • traffic, by "framing iniquity into a law." The above protest was firscpresenta to the Mayor, by 'a committee appointk unanimously by the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit, with some - hope might veto the ordinance enacted by the k Council. He gave them to understand Ile would do so. A rally of some of his Demo cratic friends and liquor-dealers intimi dated , him, and proving false to his as surances, he signed the ordinance. By a letter signifying his approval and ex pressing some views about its unconsti 'tutionality, he stultified himself, and has received the merited condemnation of many of his own party and all moral and religious persons. The liquor dealers, combining with an infidel, atheistic fac tion, have for years been trying to break down the restraints of the Sabbath. The example of the Council in Detroit has been quickly copied by that of Monroe. The liquor dealers are jubilant. But an organization auxiliary to the American National Temperance has been formed. The protest above is being circulated, and strong hopes are entertained that the triumph of the wicked will be short, and iniquity shall not be framed , into a law. cktfita',s LIVINGSTONE'S ZAMBESI. NARRATIV.b of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the. Discovery of the Lakes Shirrs and Nyassa 1858-1864. By. David and Charles Livingstone. With Map and Illustrations. New York: Har per & Bros. Bvo., pp. 638. $5.00. There is an unusual combination of attrac tions attending the narratives of Dr. Liv ingstone's travels, in which every class of readers share. The lovers of adventure, of indomitable courage, of strange people, scenes, and objects; the man of science, and the geographer; the Christian, desirous of the extension of Christ's kingdom ; and the philanthropist, bewailing the woes of his fellow-man under the scourge of human rapacity, slavery, superstition, and war, all find in the Christian traveler Livingstone a meeting-point of interest. High above all other attractions to us, is the true manli ness, which appears everywhere -in these journals, which raise§ the noble traveler above all selfish considerations, which ani mates him in his persevering attacks upon 'the wicked oppressors of the African race, and which enables him to recognize excel lence, and to descry openings for usefulness wherever they appear. A heart warm with Christian principles and feelings beats in his manly bosom, and communicates its impulses of indignation and of hope to the reader.. It is impossible to do more than give the most general account of the contents of this volume in the present notice. During the time covered, six years, Dr. Livingstone and;his associates, explored two large rivers penetrating the heart of Africa from the East, discovered some of the most remarka ble natural scenery on the glober—especially the extraordinary falls of Zambesi,,and . the deep 'zigzag channels through which •it winds, and amid ;which its stupendous cata racts pour their perpendicular,floods,—they brought to the knowledge of the civilized world a great lale, the Nyassa, two. hundred miles long .and from twelve tO fifty wide, and one h'undred fathoms deep; nearly as large as our Ontario, with terrible storms raging on its waters, and dashing , the sum wildly on. - the shores, surrounded with mountainous table-lands, and with a dense and interesting population; they helped to plant• the University Mission near another r y lake (Shire)—which, however, proved a failure from the death of Bishop Mackenzie —they discovered beds of cool on the Zam besi.; proved the capacity of the country for cotton-growing ; disclosed many curious. customs , and prejudices of the natives; added strength to the favorable opinion of the' native tribes already largely'prevalent; dis pelled utterly the low prejudices in favor of illahommedanism, in preference to Chris tianiiy as a religious power in Africa, which. Captain Burton ,attempted to foster; and above all, traced the Portugese slave trade to its ,remotest point of influence and its last, direful results upon the social life or ,the interior tribes. We are indebted to Dr. Livingstone, as to no man living, for the thorough exposure of this horrible in iquity in all its ramifications. He 'and the good Bishop Mackenzie struck the shackles from scores of the unfortunate captives whom they met in the interior, in the earlier parts of their journey towards life long bondage to the so-called Christian white man. So great is the odium Which he hastjustly turned agajnst the Portuguese, who alone are responsible for these barbarities on the east coast of Africa, that since the publica tion of his statements, high officials of that government have made clumsy and in effectual attempts to ward off in whole, or in part, the charges of the traveler, and even to circulate a tract, containing counter statements, in England. When Portugal abolishes slavery in her dominions as the king has promised, we shall be ready to listen to her protestations of innocence as to slave trade in Africa. Till then, she runs some riak of becoming the object of some concentlated measures on the part of the freer nations of Christendom, with a view to restrict her noxious influence. Dr. Livingstone has a kind word for our country in its trials; and 'a very kind word for the American missionaries in Africa. " The Americans make capital missionaries, and it is only a bare act of justice to, say that their labors and success on the West coast are above all praise," and so on. The book is handsomely illustrated with many full page engravings. The bird's eye view of the / falls of the Zambesi, cover ing two pages, is especially interesting. RkLIGIOIIS BOOKS. ArzonD. How to Study the New Testa ment; the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. By Henry Alford, D.D., D ean of Canterbury. A. Strahan: kindon and New York. 12m0., PP- 355 . - Prices2 Smith, English & Co.: Philadelphia. ' To invest the gospels with the freshness of a modern study; to preient them in such an aspect to the educated youth of our times, as well as our cultivated men of leisure, as to win their interest; to strip them of the useless formalities, which a too great rever ence for the letter of the English transla tion has thrown around them, and open the way for a more intimate acquaintance with their letter and, spirit among all, are the Commendable objects proposed to himself by the accompliihed Alford in this work. The effort must be pronounced a success; and the consideration of it is well worth the while of any instructor of the intelligent olasises from the pulpit, in the Sabbath school, or from the professor's chair. There is a fine appreciation of persons, characters, and situations in the writer that enables him to throw surprising light upon yarious parts of his theme. The Dean, in all his works, illustrates in large measure that combina tion of faith and philosophy which is such a g,feat desideratum of the times. PLIIMPIRE. Theology and Life. Sermons chiefly on Special Occasions.ByE. H. Plumptre, Professor and Chaplain in King's Collep, London. Strahan : London and New York. 12m0. : pp. 436. $2. Smith, English & Co.: Philadelphia. A striking list of topics. Invention, freedom and breadth of view, fine scholar ship and good style characterize these ser mons. They embrace such themes as the Ministry of Great Cities, Anathema from Christ, Aiming at Completeness, Music in Worship and in Life, the Theology and So cial Ethics of the Book of Proverbs, Self- Knowledge dependent on Obedience, the Ordinary and. the Marvellous in the Reli g,ious life i Dangers of the Religious Tem perament, &c. Besides its sermons there is an appendix on the authorship of the book of Job. We miss in these sermons, not indeed evangelical eleinents, but the strong, clear, healthful grasp upon them, which of all things we wish to see in the preacher of the gospel in these times. SWEDENBORG. Life ofEmanu i el Swedenborg. Together with a Brief Synopsis of his Writings_ both Fhilosorthipal.and.Theolo gical. By Wm. White, with 'an Introduc tion by A. Barrett, First. American edition. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. 12m0., pp. 272. This handsome volume is,another admo ,nition , of the activity of errorists inthe use of the press in our day.. That it is brought out in the interest of proselytism, and •not simply for general information, is manifest from the tone in which it is introduced. The author' says in the ireface, ".By and by, we may expect a general aeknowledg- . meat of the fact, that SwedenbOrg was, without exception, the mot gifted and ex traordinary man that ever lived"! ! And Mr. Barrett, whom• we have learned to know, as a zealmis opponent of the Sabbath laws of our State, and of the .enviable re pose of air city on the day of rest, and as a protege of that high moral institution of our city, the AS'unddy Press tells us in" the introduction that there are no writings with which he is acquainted "which will so richly repay the earnest seeker • after truth as the writings of Swedenborg ; none .that solve so many difficult and perplexing problems," &c. This extravagant declara tion he feels it necessary to corroborate by quotations from all those'erratic and -un steady, but brilliant, thinkers, who haveteen 'captivated by the poWerfill imagination and the half-Mystical, half-philosophical 4ecu lations of the Swede. Amon& them is what professes to be the testimony of R. W! Emerson, whose °ph:lion indeed on these subjects is of little consequence to us, but as it is valuei by Swedenborgians, the .whole of' it would doubtless have been given, were it mot for the great damage inflicted by other parts of the testimony upon the claims of their idol to common sense or even ordinary soundness of mind. The extravagant commendations of Emerson die jway at last into an ill-disguised sneer, which, of course, we cannot expect Mr. Barrett to quote in a book designed as a Swedenborgian missionary tract.- No more can we expect to find in the body of the volume a fair presentation of the odious and immoral speculationp which make up part of the'system. On page 200 it is 'expressly admitted that the time has not yet come for a‘proper appreciation of these views. Those who feel clarions to know what Swedenborgians of the present day would wish to have us believe of their idol may learn it from the book before us. Those who would know the thing itself .must seek other sources of information.. : there are doubtless individual gwedenbor glans of estimable character. But we re gard the tendency of the doctrines and the system as essentially hostile'to the Chris tian religion, and dangerous to sound morals. CHERRY AND VIGLET. A Tale of the Great Plague. By the author of " Mary PoWell." New York: M. W. Dodd. 16m0., pp. 239. For sale at the Presbyterian House. $1.75. The stirring incidents of, the time. of God's greatest, judgment upon London are here narrated in vivid terms. The lan guage being that of a'participant in all the dread reality and romance of that period gives it additional interest. True piety reigns and receives bright illustration amid scenes so well calculated to test' and de velop it., There is a charming iraintness in the style, and altogether the book is well fitted 'to meet the expectations of those who rtmemter the sweet historical romance by the same gifted author : The Maiden and Matried Life of. Mary Powell." Other works by the author of this volume, among which may be named "Household of Sir Thomas Moro," " Colloquies of Ed ward Osborn," etc., will follow at short in tervals. " The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell," will be next- in order, and will appear in April. THE OLD MANOR HOUSE. From the Sun day Magazine, London. Boston: Henry Hoyt. 16m0., pp. 380. A story of theitimes of Henry VIII. and the Lollards of Great Britain. The silent power of God's truth, joined with his Pro vidence, in a family at first wholly, under the influence of the priests, or given over to worldliness, is well described and traced through incidents of great and, touching pathos. A valuable addition to our sterl ing Sabbath-school literature. SCIENCE. AGASSIZ. Geologictil Sketches. By L. Agas siz. Boston.: Ticknor & Fields. 16mo, pp. 311. For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. There is perhaps since the death of Arago, no writer who so successfully renders into popular l .style and brings . within general comprehenshin the truths of, his department of science, as does Agassiz. These sketches, with their simple blackboard illustrations, are really entertaining. They present some of the broader views of geology, yet they. enter, at times, with little if any loss of interest, upon less farniliar and More-minute discussions—as in those pertaining to the glaciers forming the latter part of the volume. . The topics are :—America the Old World ; The Bilurjan Beech_; The. Fern Forests of the Carboniferous Period; Moun tains and their Origin ; Growth of Conti nents; The Geological Middle Age ; The Tertiary Age and its Characteristic Ani mals; The Formation, Internal Structure, Progression, and Eiternal Stiucture of Glaciers. A fine portrait adorns the volume. DRAPER, JOHN. C. A Text Book on Ana tomy, Physiology, and Hygiene. For the use of Schools . and Families. By John C. Draper, M.D., 4 Professor in the' Free Academy and in the University oP New York. With one hundred_ and seventy il lustrations. New York: Harper & Bros. 8vo.; pp. 300. With Index. A very "Complete and handsome apparatus for the teacher in the three departments of Natural Science named. „Noticeable throughout the volume . .isAlui free\use of the microscope; the remarkable results of which, as applied to everrportion of the human form,' appear in a. very large propor tion of the beautiful " engravings. The general views interspersed through the volume betray no great profundity andpoint to none of the higher relations : of the sub _. jest which so naturally suggest themselves. In this respect , our author differs troth such sevens and teachers as Hooker,.Dana, and Agassiz, whose writings cultivate at once the moral and the intellectual faculties of their readers: • The'book goes so fully:intoLe details of anatomy and physiology as to be unsuitable . - to any but students of quite . mature years. The typography and paper . border on the luxurious. M . any. of . the illustrations oc cupy full pages, and, We twin:Lena of extra ordinary skill and. delicazyi DRAiEIt, Hziriir. A teke - BOok on Chemis try for the use' of Sehlioliaild Colleges. By - Henry Draper, M.D., Professor Adjunct in the University, of New York. With over three hundred illustrations. New York: Hartier & Bre& 12m0 4. pp:so7,'with Index. It seems 'neellesito say more of this very complete and luminous teat book than that it is virtually the reissue, with needed im provementspof onerwhich has gone through forty editions since 1846: THE. SOULS OF STRANGERS. A noble Christian woman upon her death-bed psed the following language : "In looking over my past life," " she said, "I feel that I have neglected souls in a degree truly criminal. For my children, my friends and my servants, I have labored and, prayed'; but 'there- I rested. The Apostle Paul did not cease his labors at the point where the world's etiquette' requires it. But this I have not done ; and to-night I feel pressing upon my heart lost opportu nities in which I mignt have won souls for Christ, who should also haie been stars in my own crown. Were Ito raise from this bed with the view I now have of the value of one _soul, I should never dare to' walk these'streets without asking those I met if their peace were 'made" with God. The world, no doubt, rould call me mined ;' but -the world's' judgment seems of small account 10-night. I have overlooked the soul of the stranger; and, with heaven now bright before me, I am filled with anguish by my unfaithfuness. It is now too late to redeem the time, and I can only add this to the long list of sins to be washed away in the all-atoning blood. But 0, for a few days to tell of Jesus to the strangers I have neglected !"—/Ifacedonian. A PUNGENT SERMON. St. Jerome, in one of his sermons, gave a rebuke to the women of his day, which has seemed to be so apropos to our own, that it is circulated just now in Paris quite univer sally -. . "Ah ! I shall tell you who are the wo men that scandaliie Christians. They are those who daub their cheeks with red, and their eyes - with black—those who - plaster faces, too white to be human, reminding us of idols--those who cannot shed a tear without its tracinc , '' a furpaw on the painted surface• of their faces—those whose ripe years Sail to teach them that they are grow ing old—those whose head-dresses are made up of other people's hair—those who chalk wrinkles into the counterfeit presentment of youth, and those who effect the demeanor of bashful maidens in the presence of troops of grandchildren." "
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