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Caro qtlturt.
FROM OUR ATELLING CORRESPONDENT
IN THE WEST.
WEISSNICHTIVO, Nov. 15
DEAR. EDITOR:—In my search after "enter
taining knowledge" in the West, few things
have so thoroughly excited my curiosity, as the
popular Western estimate of Philadelphia. Poet
Burns Bays:
O wad some power the gift,ie gie us
To,see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad free may a blunder free us
It's human nature to want to know what other
people think of us, but modesty debars.us finding
out that in , regard to ourselves personally ; un
less, (sometimes to our sorrow!) from some very
plain-spoken people. But modesty does not for
bid' this indulgence in certain other directions.
We take honie or country; family or relatives, na
tive lend or city,
"As parts of ourself, just a little , projected,",
and' fish for compliments, or sound ,after opinions
with impunity. I had however, better reasons
for wishing.to get and to give information on this
speeialtheme. I expected to find that the mere
eoinmereial centree of the nation•were occOpying,
all the thoughts that men were throwing out,be
yoncrtheii own farms, and their daily life ; and
my.theory of national prosperity (a Philadelphia
one, learnt from Henry C. Carey,) has led me to
regard that as an evil. It would be none the
worse for 'the nation,' it Philadelphia stood higher
in the. national -esteem, as a city to be .adtiiired,
and, in many respects, a model to be followed.
In regard to the appearance of t he city, there
seemed to be but one opinion, and that I will sum
nii in the words of a Scotch settler down in
"'Egypt": "I hae been through England an'
Scotland, an' a gude pairt of America, but yon
city o' yours is the bonniest place I ever was in.
If I had ma choice I wad rather live there than
in any place I ken of." As to our Sabbath quiet
and order, I have been assured that it exceeds
that of any country town in Illinois, and that the
cleanly beauty of our streets is, to strangers,
something wonderful.
One Pittsburgh lady, indeed, expressed her
hearty dislike for " that cold, stiff city," and
hoped that she would never have to visit it
again. But no one will wonder at her opinion,
when it is known that she was very well content
to spend her days in the ci'y of smoke, where, as
she, herself expressed it, "living is a science ;"
where you must not brush against your neighbor,
nor lean against a wall, nor take down an nu
trusted book, nor touch anything, nor hope to
keep your face or shirt clean; whre the ladies
wear no light dress patterns, and the gentlemen
take an extra pair of kids when they go out, to
be ready for accidents; and where housekeepers
scrub lite out at the finger-tips in an unceasing
and unavailing battle with the descending Niaga
ra of grime and smoke. .De gustibus, etc.
Those who like Pittsburgh need not be expected
to like Philadelphia, unless they are viiry versa
tile in their likings.
And yet the very cleanness of our city creates
a very serious misapprehension in regard to it.
Fools judge a workman by his chips, and some
not very wise folks judge of a city's manufacto
ries by their smoke. More than one person has
gone through both cities, and come back with
•the impression that Pittsburg is the great work
shop of the country, just because there is no un
ceasing and defiling cloud of smoke settling down
over our city of clean streets and clean records.
Anthracite coal does not do us justice in such
people's'eyes. It does not let our smoke so low
er befure men that they see our good works.
When such are told the statistics, they ran scarce
ly believe it. When they hear of the Quaker
City as the second manufacturing city in the
world, outdone only by London, and having twice
the capital invested in manufactures that New
York has, while New York, and not Pittsburg,
comes next on the list, they have to give up all
their old notions in order to realize the truth.
And so far as the (miscalled) Iron City is con
cerned, bad consolidation not been defeated at
the last election, it might have ranked as third
•
while it in fact ranks only as sixteenth. The
manufactures are ours, whether prominent or
not. The stores of the West are full of them,
though Westerners go to New York 'to buy
them. Few Philadelphians, even, are aware
of the localities of our great workshops. How
many kriow that North Front street is lined with
rolling mills and carpet factories ? How few,
even, realize the enormous extent of the built up
part of the city, or how far they can drive be
tween rows of brick—from Gray's Ferry to Rich
mond Landing, or from below the Navy Yard to
Girard College. I have seen farmers wonder
when told that we have streets longer than from
where we sat to the next country town—twelve
or fourteen miles off—and that the street rail
ways, which rim out of their Western cities, find
it a long road to get through ours.
Another 'Western superstition is, that growth
is something for which they have taken out an
exclusive patent. They tell 'me that so many
years ago—twenty or thirty—the little town they
point out was part of the open, prairie. I have
only been ten years in Philadelphia . , but, I tell
them, I have seen cities added. to it• id that time,
that, disdaining the limits that are already stran
sling Boston, New York, Pittsburgh Cincinnati,
c., it is spreading out equally and ' freely in all
directions; that whole districts of vacant lots
have been built up since I came to it, and "yet
there is room ;" that a modest estimate claims
an increase of two hundred thousand : since our
last census, while New York reports a decrease
In the,same period; that, in spite of the slowness
,of its mere business men, it will yet be what it
once was, the iVletropolis of America
But it . is to the qualitative, and not the quanti
tative aspect that I especially. ask Western atten
tion. It seems to me a misfortune that existing
commercial methods bring' the West into contact
with examples which do them no, good; that their
ideas of, municipal greatness are summed up in
the Worlla r " New York 'and 'Chicago." Right at
lheAthrt I met this:- Why,"'slid a Newcas
tle man, "Your city is a slow place. , Iff I ship
butter to you it may get sold, or it may not. If
I ship it to New York, it is sure to sell." Very
An' foolish notion
THE AMERICAN PR
true, but. why ship itlat all? Why have to pay
tbe heavy tarot' transfer, instead of maktag inch
a market here as: will consume all your farm pro
duce close by.-your fairns,. - Saving b. 411 producer\
and. consumemthecost - iif:transpottation, and the
profits of middle-men ; and enabling the farmer
to make such a return to the land as will keep
his farm always improving, instead of always
losing ground r lam for Free Trade," said an
Allegheny county farmer; " What is the use of
taxing, us by tariff duties for the benefit of these
manufacturers?" " How much is your farm
worth ?" "So much." " Would be worth
that if Pittsburgh were away?" it/Would
be worth-nest to- nothing."
" I know it : is a heavy, tax.,to send, our leather
East, to send food for those'Who tan Hind make
it up, and then to bring back. the 'doodle, paying
he freight. both ways. But we , have• not :the ca
pital, nor the hands,, to, start tanneries and manu
factories." " Now," said I, " when men want
to make a living by farming, they come West.
because the farms are here. And &you will but
start, the factories, those 'who • want to. li4re. by
them will come West too. You, are not so ill off
for capital but,that you have helped to build big
railroads to carry off the strength of your soil,
and the fatness of your lands, to the East,; 'and, I
think, that if you were. to try,ryOu , would find'
money enough Whelp to start factories. to save
a little of them for ithe :West. Co-operation .will
do the rest." Co-operation must save the, Nest
from being drained out .by the big tunnels, called
New York and Chicago, if anythina will; and
the Protective Leakue 'sew. Leypnldt and
Holt's pamphlet broadcast over the West: • I re
joice to hear that the movement is beginning.,
and co-operative factories are going up in. Mon
mouth and elsewhere.
Thus it is that I sow Philadelphia seed . out:
.
here in'an infinitesimally Small „
way, and;'unless•
Philadelphia is appreciated and imitated: ` here,.
there is no hope of a song run "of Western .pros
perity.
.The West : needs
. more Philadelphians,
and I rejoice to see the indications that she is
to have them. Factories are going up on every
side, and entplqyments are being diversified in ai
way that will give free scope to the many-sided
character of the people:
But, in political matters, there ; is a harder
work of explanation. What means the . election
of Sharswood, and of the Democratic . City Ticket?
I can only say that local causes, and not change
of opinions, led us to defeat. I speak or Phila
delphia politics in the hands of the O. P. F's,
who nominated themselves, while the Democrats
put up soldiers; of the terror of our German
folks that they would have to spend laeerless
Sabbaths, and at home; of the united opposition
of the . whiskey brigade alarmed at the excise
law; of the jealousy of the city bar, who prefer
red a disloyal "-Philadelphia lawyer,” to a loyal
Pittsburgher; and, above all, of the opposition of
-the Penna. Central, whO dreaded 4inother Pitts
burgh vote on the bench when their suit with
the APConnelsville R. R. is on hand. But it's a
lame list,of apologies. Yours &e.,
LONDON IN NOVEMBER.
Lord Lytton, in Some of his works has said,
that in every month of the year, except Novem
ber, London is sure to afford the visitor some de
gree of pleasure and comfort; but wo to the un•
fortunate traveller who should venture to look for
anything pleasant during that dismal month. And
no one would wish to dispute so eminent an au-:
thority in a city where it is a recorded fact-that
rain falls on at least one half of the three hun
dred and sixty-five days of every year, and where . ,
by universal admission, the month of November,
surpasses every other month in fog and mist and
smoke and gloom. But notwithstanding all draw
backs London is interesting to me on this par
ticular November. On one day of this , month
dubious light of the sun came struggling down
through the haze and smoke; and persons coining
in from Southampton, on the railway, had a fine
view of the houses of parliament, Westin; tiger Ab
bey, Lambeth palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral..
But stop. I am wrong. I mean they would
have had a fine view, if they had been in such
railway carriages as plain reanblican American
people are wont to ride -in.. , As it was, only
those persons enjoyed the unusual sight who sat
next .the Western side of the train, and those.
only when they dared to thrust their heads out
of the windows of the carriage doors.
This small number, among whom was the wri
ter, were able to obtain a fine notion of the mag
nificence and glory of the great metropolis, and
not Paris itself affords such an impression of
solidity, grandeur and morld-commanding great ,
ness.
On the same- day, as I walked over WaterlOo
bridge, the Thames gleamed right and left with a
sort of murky brightness, which did much to re
veal the multitudinous operations of business go
ing on upqn its bosom. - As I passed on through
the Strand toward Fleet street and Oheapside,
there was light enough to reveal quite distinctly
.a number of historic objects, which overwhelmed
me with the rush of recollections' of 'the olden
time. There was " Temple Bar." I Was sorry
to overhear a gentleman saying that'it would soon
be. removed. Wi:l the town itself be Wry down
next ? Temple Bar is a gate-way - buflt by Wren,
and it was ornamented for -.ages with the heads
'and mangled remains of traitors and criminals.
,The People were, wont to examine these trophies.
_
-of justice , through spy-glasses hired on the spot,
for half-penny the look. It is surely to , be.re
'gretted that so significant a monument of ,Eng ;
-Bah customs 'should be removed from the eyes of
the tender and sympathetic admirers of Jeffer
son Davis, ' that clever and gentlemanly states
man," "that much oppressed and sorely , wronged
.hero," " the gallant sufferer of .the aristocratic
confederacy." It would be wholesome to pre
serve as long as possible such a relic of British
justice for the benefit of those- whose ardent. de
sire is to lay down their lives, if need be, to res
.cue that "noble man from the vindictive cruelty
'of the North."
Even when rain was falling in torrents ~I foil
: some wafters ofinterest. I happened to take re-_
;fuge :ten o'clock on Sunday morning, in a lecture
room of Baptist Noel's Chapel in JOhn street,.
Some goad women were already there and others'
coming in and some grave and reverend elders
ON - THE WINO
LONDON, Nov. 6, 1867
SBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1867.
round - the desk,- It was a prayer-meeting, upon
which r had fallen', and those who have passed
months in such cities as Paris, and Remit, and
Elorence, and -Veni e, may perhaps be-abla=te up,"
derstand low refresh ing to ink spirit '*ras'the
tion of a prayer-meeting. One atter another the
aged an*salid,ase`n offered up their supplications.
Two prayers and a hymn, two prayers and a
hymn, until the time was exhausted. Not a word
was said except to God. It was by no means a
social meeting. There was no aspect of " con
ference" about it. It deepened in my mind-the
conviction already formed-I that thevgood brethr , n ,
on this side of the• Sea-bane much te led.rn in the
way of managing prayer-tneetings, for comfort
profit,, But the prayers themselves delighted me.
They'were warm and fervent. They indicated
plainly that , that group of praying men hid a deep
and heart-felt acquaintance with God and. an
earnest desire for the, prosperity of his Churen..
They were full of specific petitions. Those breth
ren who were sick, or in trouble were remember
ed plainly and by name ; and those who had re
ceivetrspecial mercies were mentioned' with spe
cial thanksgivirim. It was evident: • that the
prayers too were , fresh. They did, nobthave the
swing-of endless repetitions. ,, l'he petitions were
not • offered as a matter o eourse. They seemed
to imply that those who offered them 'ex'pected
that the 'Divine Parent Wonld 'attend their re'.
(Fiesta. • One gooddi-brother atikett'the , Lord` to
especially favor. with-lisjiresence the.meeting-of
Monday evening when.. Rev. Mr. Hammond again
would address the efiliaren arid the young. The
sermon of Baptist Noel4lS.in leeping With '.the
prayers. It was plain earnest practical talk and
fatherly admonition and instruction. His subject
was taken from tbe'plirable of the sower:
" Some of you,' said he, I rejoice to , bnlieve
and.to sxy, are hundred 'fold- ChristianS.?, • Oth
ers.of you are not:: IsTff .why is it, slear,frierida,
that you who are ortly. thirty fold Christians, do.
not bear the hundred fold ?- The same seed ha"S
been sowed in your hearta. The same sun ha's
poured warmth and light, upon you.. The reason'
is:-in yourselves.• The •difference-is a i difference
of soil Not of sky Tor, •of seed,. Snrely. you.
should give attention to make your thirty, fold
sixty fold and your sixty fold a hundred'fold-,"
'I he next evenin' took occasion to return,
and there 'I found-Rev:-E. P. Hammond, face to
face, with-a thousand children and youth. • His
heart and spirit were unchanged. As thousands
have seen him in Rochester, Utica, Philadelphia
and elsewhere, so he was here, simplytrusting .
the Holy Spirit, combating spiritual cowardice,
establishing the believing and awakening the
careless. At the close of the- service 1 met more
than a hundred converts, of some three months'
standing,, in an adjoining room, into which those
only were invited who felt sure that they were
renewed by Divine grace. I have never seen a
happier or brighter group of youthful converts.
During the week .I had• the pleasure of seeing
an effort, made by Mr. Hammond in a large char
ity school, in the West End, apparently crowned
by the conversion of the majority of the pupils.
As 'I chanced to be in the office of the "Chris
tian Tinies,". in . Paternoster Row, my eye fell
upon a large sized portrait of " Rev. E. P. Ham
mond, . the Children's Preacher," which orda
mented th.e ...centre of the sheet. It is for the
good of`thigi'Filty that this great-hearted and earn-
est evangelist is labOring in it "It-is-good -to _set
i.ff the lively faith of - these young disciples
against the :lives of those who. are regenerated
only in the prayer-book fashion, by baptism, , I
have learned, however, that. Mr. H. expects soon
to begin evangelical abor'in Dublin. May the
Divine blessing go with him. C. C. K.
0013,11,ESPONDENCE WITH JOSEPH BARKER,
For a period of about ten years,- (and much of
that time in various sections of this country,) the
author of the following letter, Mr. JOSEPLE BAR.
HER, was an avowed advocate of rank infidelity.
The open attestation below, made by him in fa
vor of Christianity, is therefore important and of
deep significance; and we commend_ the careful
perusal of it to all,—especially the young.
The following correspondence ought to have,
therefore, an extensive circulation ; that the cause
of truth may be sustained, and error condemned.
All friends of Christianity and the Bible,, are re
quested to publish the same, that through the
Divine blessing, it may, hinder the workings of
Satan, and aid in breaking down especially this
specious refuge of unbelief
PHILADELPHIA, February 9th, 1866.
MR. JOSEPH. BARKER—'MY' DEAR SIR:—
Some twelve years-since, I was one of two per
sons, acting as a committee of arrangement, (on
behalf of Christianity,), during• the discussion be
tween Rev. D. Berg and yourself', in this city;
and having obierved various reports, (brief items)
occasionally in some of the newspapers of this vi
cinity, from 'the interest that I feel in our "com
mon salvation," I have taken the liberty of ad
dressing you, and f'or my own eatisfaction.would
inquire of you:
Have. you entirely renounced the views you
formerly entertained, with regard to the Divine
authority of the Holy Scriptures ?
'Do you` new, 'with- . all sincerity, advocate and
proclaim the. Gospel of the Son ,ofsod,a.s.reveal
ed•in the Sacred Scriptures,. to be the only anti
dote for sin, and the sovereign remedy for the
" healing of the nations ?"
In a word, do you belielte in'thb'dnefrinCs of
grace, and 'satiation by -the finished work of
Christ ? •
When, did the .change takeplace in your, views;
—from what cause ;—and had the. discussion al
luded to with ilev. Dr. Deio-, any bearino• in the
premises ?
With what Chfistian denoraiintion dolyoii now
hold connection:?: ,
I trust that, you mill: not deem me inquisitive.
The sugge , tion to write to you, has originated
'with myself, and I feel solicitous, first, for, the
glory of 0-'64'and honor of the cause - of Christ;
and secondly, because very many in this country
world dOubileXs regard with deep interest, a re
ciqation; of, your former errors, 'an exposition of
yeurpresen,t views, and the reasons for the - change:
As I have intimated, the Published items are
frtini' being satisfaCtory; because
'cortflictiiw'and 'Cornink , from souttes oftentinies
unknown. It may, therefore, be a satisfaction to
you, ta:make ypur own statement in replyi and,
if disposed..you may, write to° mergivi ng me the
privilege ofpublishing your replyan some :of our
preinittent .•rcligiptut nenpagers .hutt i if You:re
:quoit-to t:l;cr contiUrf L shollkwithhold it
I need scarcely say to you, that it is always mag
nanimous for one to correct errors, and wiles,
possible, endeavor to counteract their influence
Trusting soon to hear from you,
I remain,
Yours
• -of .Ref. Prot. D. Church.
Note. Tlin - abniiilettei was accordingly mail
ed to'England, Feb.-10; 1866, and failing.toreach
Mr. Barker, was returned from the Post office
department,; Washington, to the author, June
20th, 1866: it was subsequently again mailed,
and the. answer below received.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30th, 1867.
MR. JOSEPH BARKRR, SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND
—134 . 6iR SIB:-You will perhaps notice the date
of 'the - enclosed' letter, and Wonder at its delay in
coming into• your possesSion, It was mailed as
per date, and.directed,to you, at Burahlum Staf
fordshire Potteries, England,;. and. not. finding
you, was returned to me again, June `2oth',. the
same year. Although nearly two years 'hive
elapsed,' 1 - •,:again • enclose `youthe sainelfrtierl
having incidentally' learned - of your , addiesa
through a friend .recently from England.
I am yours, vcry truly, &e.,
C COLLINS, '
REPLY.
VICTOR' PLACE; IVillisim St : ` Soitti port,
LaileashirooEngland, Nov. , 21. ; 1867.
REV. 0. COLTANS,Jr.'i Philadelphia,-MY DEAR
SIR:-I am happy to be able to say, that. I hove
"entirely renounced the views I i formerly held
with regard to the Divine Authority of,the Sa
cred' Scriptures," - and that I have now'for mearly
five years, been preaching - and advoetiting " the
Gospel of Christ, -as :presented' in the. New Testa
ment, as-the only; antidote for s,in, ancithe sover
eign remedy for the,healing of the nations."
change did not - take place siiiidenly • it
was spread over Several 'years ;' nor can I trace it
to anyone event, or' nian, or book. Pbelieve it
commenced-while I was in Nebraska; and .ad
vanced somewhat irregularly, from that time, to
its happy consummation in 1863.
A correspondence which commenced betiveeri
Me and - the Rev. Dr; Cooke, of Lcri on in 18432,
was of great service in accelerating the -change,.
and bringing it to a happy issue. „
But to , give you an account of the process in
a letter, would . be imp Issible. am thinking 'of
preparing ,a statement; for the Press ; and when
it is published, shall be glad; if you desire it.
to forward a copy or two to your 'address. If .
the Post-office regulitions allow me, I-will for
ward to you along with this letter, cypies of some
~f the pamphlets I have published, since my, re
turn to Christ. I would' send you one I pub
lished on the Bible, but it is out of print.. I have
often wished to write to Dr. Berg, but I .was told
he had left Philadelphia.
I expected to return to America before this;
but the state of my wife's health has thus far ren
dered it impossible.
I desire very much, to haveian opportunity of
making - known to my former hearers and readers,
the change which has taken place in my views
and feelings; and the considerations and influen
ces, by which under God, it has been effected.
You are perfectly at 'liberty to publish this
statement in any way you think well. So far
from having any objection to its publication, you
will greatly oblige me, by giving it as extensive
a circulation i 6 possible. All I should ask is.
that if my statement be accompanied with any
remarks, they shall be such as shall have no ten
dency to exasperate my old unbelieving friends.
Many of them were very kind to me ; and in
every case, meekness, and gentleness, and love,
are best calculated to win sceptics and unbeliev
ers to Christ and his cause.
I am in connection with the Episcopal Church;
though my labors as a Lecturer and Preacher,
have been mostly in connexion with the Primi
tive Methodists, and other dissenting denomind
tions.
The accompanying remarlcs, made at the close
of one of my lectures here, may render my answer
to your kind letter somewhat more complete.
Lamenting that I should ever have erred, but
rejoicing that I have been so happily restored,
I am, My Dear Sir, •
Yours most Respectfully,
JOSEPH BARKER.
ADDITIONAL REMARKS
, To you, young men, who are beginning to
entertain sceptical views, let me offer a word of
counsel and warning. I assure you, you k now
not what you are doing. The path on which you
are entering, may seem right to you in your
present state of mind; but the end thereof is
death:! You are preparing for yourselves , mat- .
ter for bitter•repenrance.
I have trod - the dreadful path, from beginning
to end. I know it all.' It is a weary and dismal
road, and it leads to wretchedness and ruin. I
have seen the terrible effects which infidelity pro
duces on men's characters. I. have had .proof of
its deteriorating influence, in my own experience.
Its tendency is to utter debasement. I have read
and studied both Sides, and what is more, I have
tried both and the result is, a full assurance
that infidelity is- adness; and Uit', the religion
of Christ is the perfection of wisdom and good
ness.
I think of my wanderings in the dark shades of
doubt and unbelief, with unspeakable 'sorrow. I
Would give a world, if I could have my time-to
live again;. that I Might avoid the dreadful rnisl
take I made, in turning my back on Christ. and
his cause; and jiiining the ,ranks of , fhis enemies.-
The only comfort I have.is, that I was permitted
to return, while in the fulness Of my health and
strength, and in the:vigor of my mental powers;.
that .I am; allowed to speak for •Christ and Chris
tianity once more,—that my family are all happy,
in the love of God- and in the faith- of, the Gos
pel ;—and that ,my !large and ' ; varied experience
'enables me to speak of the idulte,excellency•of
'religion with -an assurance ; and to substantiate
*hatl.say_ with a kind..of evidence, which, with-,
put Buhl an experience, : might have been
I haveitlo inducement to address you thus,=but .
a regard to your welfare, and to the welfare of
•those over whom your influence may extend, and
a sense of duty to that Great Good God, who is
the Father of us all. I owe it to you, I Owe it
to all, to make.known the result, of my life-long
-e2qerien ce al* thisis the reason why I speak.
1.) know that virtue, is necessary' to ha l plum,
;nil that religion is necessary to virtue; and that
Christianity is religion, and virtue, and happi.
ness, in their highest and divinest forms. I have
proved
,its power. I have felt its worth. I hav e
tasted its- dessedness. I have seen its elevating
and cheering power in others near and dear to
me, in the hour of grievous suffering. It
the best and, dearest creature 1 know on earth,
said to me not Jong agoovhen_a,pparintly draw
ing near to death,—it is 'the Pearl of g reat
price ;'• i the one thing needful.'
I &ilia say' riforec- - -niy heart is full, and
would fain pour forth itself in prayers and en
treaties :to you. to return to Christ. The ma n
that leaves the religion of Christ for unbelief, or
sinfulpleaentreei, or worldly gains, makes a dread
ful eiehinge: He leaves the fountains of living
waters for cisterns that can hold no water. Like
the Prodigal. Son, he leaves the home of his soul,
and the love of the Father for a far country;
where, after his short delusive pleasures, he must
encounter the horrors of friendlessness and star
vation.- The Prodigal was beside himself; and so
• are they, who `imitate his example. When the
Prodigal came-to himself, he, returned, with shame
and' sadness, to
,his Father , and home again ;
arid *lett you come to yoUrsel4es, you will do the
same.
C. COLLINS, JR..,
Life` Lessons 'in the School of 'Christia ,
Duty.
By E. H. Gillett.,. D.D., author of "Ancient Cities
and Empires," "Life and Times of John Huss,-
Ste 407 pp., 12mo. 1.5 1
:A;new edition of an already popular book, now fir
issued by the Presbyterian Publication Committee.
Parental Training.
By Bev.. William -Bacon. 209 pp., 16mo. 60 cts.
This book was announceLl on our April list; but it ,
unavoidable delay occurred in the issuing of it. 11
now in press.
What _Then P or, The Soul's To-morrow.
128 pp., large 82mo. Flexible mus'in.
By the same author as "Life Lessons," and, li
that book, now issued in a second edition.
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-God•grant• that it may be soon. God grant
that you ,, may be brought to see things in their
true light, and to seek his mercy, and give your
selves to his service without delay.
Infidelity and sin, and all that they can give,
are but vanity and vexation of spirit;—but a
life of faith on the Son of GOd, and or obedience
to. His Gospel, "is profitable unto all things,
hayingpromise both of the life that now is, and
Of that which is to come."
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..FOR. SABBATH SCHOOLS.
Beggirs of Holland and Grandees of Spain.
By Rev 'John W. Mears, D.D. 477 pp., 16ma.
Eight Illustrations and a Map. $1.60
A history of the Reformation in the Netherlands, il
lustrating the heroic constancy of the witnesses for
the truth in Holland,- and the cruelty of their Spanish
persecutors. The efforts of Philip of Spain and the
Duke of Alva - to crush out liberty, civil and religious,
from the-Netherlands, and the resistance of the pea
ple.,,led by William of Orange, form one of the most
deeply'interisting chapters in history. It is out that
oar young people h mild • iinderetand,
Flora Morris' Choice.
By the author of " Bessie Lane's Mistake," " George
Lee;" &c. '320 pp., 16ino. Fear Illustrations. 1.2.6
In this tale the author contrasts simple, Christian
life with the conformity to the world so prevalent and
so debaSing to"SoCiety. It is designed for young la
dies and their parents.
Shoe-binders of New York.
By Mrs. J. McNair Wright. 237 pp., 16mo. Three
Illustrations. 1.00
A thrilling picture of low life in New York City, il
luminated by the loving labors of a Christian woman-
It is'shown that there is a pOwerin the love of Christ,
borne to the degraded, to raise them out of the depthe
of sin into a higher, holier walk.
Weakness and Strength; or, Out "of the
Deep.
By cue Author of "Peep at Eaton Parsonage," &c.,
&c. 295 pp., 18mo. Four Illustrations. .85
This is a narrative that will chola attention. The
thought is made real that human strength is unequal
to the reform of the life, that it is weakness, and that
God's strength is equal to the work.
Ancient Cities and Empires;. Their Pro!
phetio Doom.
See deseripiion below: ' A book that should have a
place in every library for Bible classes and older pa
pas of the Sabbath-school.
STANDARD AND MISCELLANEOUS
Ancient Cities and Empires; Their Pro
phetic Doom.
By E. H. tiillott., D.D., Author of "Life and Time
of John Huss," " History of the Presbyterian
Church," "England Two Hundred Years Ago,"
"Life Lessons," &c. Twenty-two Illustrations.
802 pp., 12mo. 1.75
Keith on the Prophecies did a good work for the
truth, but modern research has opened rich stores o
infOrmatiOn then unknown, and a new book on the
falfilinent of prophecy is called for. Such a book it
this, enriched from many modern books of travel, a
fully illustrated by wood cuts.
Future Punishment
By the.late : Moses Stuart. 225 pp., 16mo. . 9 '
• An examination of all the passages in the New Te.:
timent in which terms relating to Future Punishment
occur, inoliuling •the kindred Hebrew words of th••
Old Testament. This work is one of great value, and
being entirely out of print has been reproduced.
will be found valuable' by the popular - reader as wel
as by the scholar.
XOSEPri" BARKER.