iti' ablg. Apar Publishers will confer a favor by mentioning the prices of all books sent to this Department. Three volumes have recently been issued by the (German) Reformed Publication Board : (1.) TIIE STORY OF FATHER MILLER, written for his friends, by Franz Hoffman ;.an old-fashioned Ger man s t or y, showing the interposition of Providence on occasions of special need, .and at the crisis of great trials in the history of a pious family. 75e. (2.) THE LIFE or CAIN, 75e. and (3 ) SALOME THE DANCER, 40c., by Rev. I. K. Loos, aro necessarily made-up books, in the absence of. authentic per sonal materials. There are pages of the merest conjecture unrelieved by a•spark of imaginations The aims and lesions of the book are good; but what are we to understand by, this allusion to Cain's wife? (page 62), "She long since fell asleep. Hers was a stormy life, full of labor and sorrow. May she rest in peace, and be.privileged at last to ante into a better inheritance---' an inheri tance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away." 1 Peter i. 4. Sold at 52 N. Sixth St. Boon RECEIVED. TEE PLAY Scuoca, SToalis for Little. Folks. By Aunt Mettle. 2 vols. 18mo., pp. 118 and 116. Boston : Gould & Lincoln. Philadel phia: Smith, English & • Co. SPALDING.—The.LittIe Gate and How to Enter It. An allegory, urging the importance of be-, ing a child of God; and an illustration show ing how to become one. By Albert T. Spald ing, Pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky. 18mo., pp. 43. Same as above., DAWES.—Lindenwood ; or, Bethias' Resolve. By Mrs. 5, E. Dawes. $l. 16m0., 446 pp. New York and Philadelphia : American Tract Society. THE WHITE FOHEictrizits frona Over the Water; The Story Of the American Mission to the Bur!. mese and the Karelia. $l. 16m0., 334- pp': New York'and Philadelphia : American' Tract Society. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.—Conducted by E. Littell. Fourth Seriea, Vol. XIII., April, May, June. 1869. Boston: Littell & Gay. Xitfrarg gul4s. —The book critic of Childs' Literary Gazette, June 15th, having spoken disparagingly of Dr. Bushuell's late, work on, Women's Suffrage, and from the, paint of:view of - the advocates of the " Reform, ;anet,her department in the issue for July 1, speaks of the,book as " well deseiving of thoughtful examination. ,Sincerith i earnestness, and intellectual probity are revealed in every line of the volume. For the weaker sex the author has a tender and almost chivalric regard. Never theless, while willing and even *irons to make any reasonable saorifiee, consistent with. the dig nity and well-being of eithpr aex; : to enhance the influence of woman, he considers the nature of the sexes as, so diverse that, uoqualified evil would result from the bestowal of the elective franchise on her. The change proposed, he regardS as rad ioal enough to alter, in the lapse of time, even the type of' womanhood itself. His fundamental theory is that the nature of the one sex is com plementary to that of the other,; and his views on this subject ought not to be overlooked by any one who wishes to have a comprehensive view of the question. His analysis'of the arguments by which female suffrage is supported is forcible and original : so much so, we, think, that many read ers will doubtless reconsider some of ,the conclu sions at which they, had arrived, on this subject. His chapter entitled, ' No Right of Suffrage Ab solute in Man or Woman'is a timely antidote to a good deal of loose political thinking on the part of either sex." —Scribner & Co., announce, a new and revised edition of' Headley's A,dirondacks, and President Woolsey's Work on Divorce and Divorce Legis lation.—Fields, Osgood & Co. have reissued For ster's Life om Walter Sava„ge,Latidor,A book very industriously praised in England, $3.50; they also announce James Greenwood's Seven Curses of London, (Neglected Children, Professional Thieves, rofessional ,Beggars, Fallen Women, the Curse of Drunkenness ' Betting Gamblers, and Waste of Charity,) and Sermons by Rev. S. A. Brooke, Editor of Robertson's Life and. Let- ters; both from advance sheets,--Seribner ? Wel ford & Co. announce in - their list of' late impor tations, Prof. Pepper's " Cyclopedic Science Sim plified," including : Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Pneumatics, Acoustics. and Chemis try, 720 Bvo. pages with six .hu,ndred illustra tions, at $4.50,; also,. Southey's d Book of the Church, $1.75 ; and two new volntnes of The Ante-Nicene Library, (Vol. L Of Tertullian'a Writings, and the Writings of' Clement of Alex andria), each $3.50.—D. Appleton & CO.' have issued Lecky'a History of European Morals, 2 vols l Bvo., $6.00; they also announce : The Land and its, Story, (Palestine), by N. C. Burt, D. p , The Women of Business. &c.—J. B. Lippincott & CO. announce Moral Reforms, by Bishop Coxe; Anecdotes of the Old Testament, &e. They have already. ,prepared nine English and three Ger man Almanacs for 1870.—Adams & Co., Boston, announce The •Career of the God-Idea ' by Hud son Tuttte:—A. D. F. Randolph & Co. have pub lished the Divine Human in the Incarnate and Written Word, by a New York Lawyer, 12m0., sl.so.—Oakley, Mason & Co., N. Y. have is sued a book against: dancing, entitled, "The Dance of' Modern Society," by C. —The National :" i ln red aligencer, published at Washington, has • ekp in the sixty-ninth year • of its age. GREAT' BRITAIN: —Dr. Wm. Smith is superintending a Diction ary of Christian Antiquitieß, by various l hands. i It s to cover the period betwein the Apostles and:Charlemagne. The sank indefatigable worker ts,editing a Classical and• Biblical_Atlas, also The sOent's Manual of Ecclesiastical"Hi l story; (to the Reformation), The Student's' ilailani,,and a work on (i-reek Prose CompAsition. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1869. —Dean Alford whose high scholarship is equalled by his piety and evangelical soundness, has issued a new version of the New Testament which, says the " London Bookseller," is attracting consider able attention. He has given a text which he considers genuine. Comparing all the oldest ver sions, he rejects that which is undoubtedly spu rious, and points out portions which are doubtful. The well-known passage, Acts xxvi. 28—" Al most thou persuadest me to be a Christian," is rendered, "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Lightly thou art persuading thyself that thou canst make me a Christian."' —The Copyright of" Once a Week," publish ed by Messrs Bradbury & Evans, London, was sold at, auction for 1260, June 15th. —We read of "The Printers' Almshouses" in London. The popular firm of Cassell, Petter & Gal pin recently presented them with $5OO in gold. This firm announce a monthly series of elegantly illustrated Travels in all parts of the world. Each part, 50 cents. They are well worthy of universal patronage. —Late London announcements are: Rev, Henry Van Lennep's Asia Minor ; anew edition of Aids to Faith ; - M: Guiicit's fast ”Meditation :" .• Christianity in its Relationi to the Present Siete of Society and, Opinion ; vols.. 11., and 12' (con clusi,on) of ,Froude's History;,. of Sped ding's Life of Bacon; flume's Philosophical Works; Translation of Dr. Xeller's • Stoics, Epi cureans and Sceptics ; Sarl.,Gerok's Palm Leaves —sacred poems, translatdd 'by Miss Winkworth; Dean Hook on the Disestahlished Church id the AMerican Republic; a fifth edition of Darwints celebrat. , d Essay on the Origin of Species; Rev, R. C. Didham's new Translation of the Psalms Drake's Notes on Amos ; Pusey's Eirenicon, gd vol'; Rev. W. StOhe, The AP , lcalypse ; •Rev. T. Timpson's_Key to the Holy Bible, I . Bs ; A.'Mnc donald's Love,' Law and Theology; Mrs. phant's Minister's Wife, ,3 vols., 31s. 6d. • —Mr. Wills, Mr: Charles Dickens''`-assistant in the managenae'nt of "All the Year Round," is quite ill with , paralysis. • ---There is a writer '' in Paris who gets the'name of " Robespierre's Donkey " fothis literary lehors in defence of the,bloody beast of.the Revolution. There is a whole race of such donkeyi which have made their appearance , in this, country since the Rebellion, but their crolipings , are scanty and mainly thistles. • . 1.21 e Round Table, one of, the ,most brilliant and often quoted literary, journals, has lately been after many vicissitudes; merged in the Citizen. Its circulation was about'four thousand. It never paid expenses, but in the five years of its exis tence, cost from 30,000 to 40,000 dollars. GERMANY. " - J. - F. El." (Hurst ?)'sends a' valuable letter occasionally to the Literary Gazette on , Recent German Publications. That in the number; :for July Ist, is dated Frankfort-on-the-Main, June 10th. The London letter in the same issue is dated JUne 15th, while the Paris letter is dated February Ist! J. F. 11..'mentions d new work by Baxrdann on the Policrof 'the Popes,the4first instalment of which has appeared in Elberfield. It covers, the ground from, Gregory, L, A. D., 590, to' Benedict 111. The same publisher, says ‘ c II," is proceeding rapidly with his " Thieologisches•Universal-Lexi kon zum Ilandgebrauche• fiir Geistliche and 'ge- bildete, Nichttheologen . " (Universal •Theological Leicon for the use of Pleigymen and, Educated Laymen). The articles arerepared with care, all of them are briefran'd thdse of a biOg,raphical and literary character are specially commendable for the bibliography . connected with ,their.:;ub, jects. ; —A new edition of the Vocungelische kolks Bibliothele his just heen Completed. The cor respondentgays : " The work is 'the only one of its cla4 in Germany, being an attempt to •popu- larize the leading- evangelical theologians of Ger many and Switzerland covering the, whole ,Pro testant peri..d. It consists of five volumes. The first one includes Luther,'Calvin, and Melanchl thor, the second, third 'and fourth, relate to the minor writers and workers of the Reformat:o9. The fifth volume is of special value, for it is--a rich .Protestant anthology,. such as would be im possible'to . find elsewhere. Its title is, in Eng, fish,. Religious Poetry from Luther to KlOp stock,' and is divided as follows': I. The Poets of the Reformation • 11. The Poets between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War ;. The Poets of the Thirty Years' 'War ; IV. The Poets between the Thirty Years' War and the Seven Years' War;. V. Poets of the New Period The work is' receiving the highest commen dations *Om all shades of the German press ' and is richly 'deserving all the good words that have been said of ,it." Ift-I . k igrilla4Mlll6% : i ''• ' THE FOR IN SUMMER By REV. DR-MUHLENBERO, OF,NEW YORK The poor Can't go out of t'own'. Sick or well, their health must' thriVe, without the change of air 'and 'scene; 'which we-demand fer'Our own. Doomed"to 'alternate' between the'dingy p pent u room 'and the foul street, the open face of God's creation seldom glad deris' their eyes.. The reviving breath of nature, fresh from the woods , and lawns, braces not their nerves. The toilers in damp cellar's, from daybreak till dark, have al mOit forgotten how the green fields look. Such . a thing as a day's excursion, for plea sure; never enters their heads. The me chanic;the clerk, the aPprentice, have some times the chance of a breathing space in the country: . Schools all bave their vacation, that the scholars, who can, may go from their playgrounds to the forests and the hills ; but how many hundreds are there of and. weakly ones, particularly wo men and 'children, prison-bound by their narrow dWellings and the immediate neigh boyhood about them, breathing a miasma timed air 1 How many infants die every year, at this season, of diseases indident to thOr age,simply from want of fresh air'l recollect' well the astonishment of'' sev oral poor &Dillies,' during' 'some Very hot Weather wfien' besides giving them . their weekly'allorance,w insisted on ilheir 'Vending in recreation e an extra sum; Whicht a thoughtful friend had sent for them, on condition that they would use it in goi ng now and then over the river for a ramble in the woods. " Sure," said one of them, "we have not done the like for years." At how little cost might there be an occa. sional treat of healthful enjoyment to those whose dreary and monotonous existence is scarce relieved by'a bright scene or a merry hour through the livelong year I But we must not be proposing picnics for the poor, lest we be set down for monomaniacs in charity-4and yet, if the poor have the same capabilities ,of enjoyment which we make an argument for our own pleasures, the thing would not be so very monstrous. Would it not then be considerate in Chris tian people, in carrying out their plans for the summer, to think of those, who have none else to think of them Would it, not be a good custom, to leave something in the hands of their pastors or other alnioners, for the sick and needy "at a time when sick ness prevails and need Is cut off from its customarly .supplies ' Enjoy yourselves, kind friends; wherever ye be—rusticating at, your vides on the Hudson, on the Soundor regaling. at Saratoga, Or 'Newport, or Bed ford, or among NeW England's hills; btit'do have :a' thought for. he folks stifled in , closets, or-roasting„iti garrets, or ,dragging their feeble, steps in, thkehot sun at noonday,,, to find " everyboplyout of town!' Perhaps you can call some of them to mind. You can remothbOr indivildualik' whom You'ought not, to bave forgotten.; for them, at leant, leave something, that they may refresh themselves, as, they can; and that thiegy may spare a day to carry their, sick babies out to semi country friend, 'who may manage to entertain them. A - gift substradted from your purse won't spoil the enjoyment of what.the balance,-procnres. The mountain air, the ocean breeze, will inspire nanght, less of iealth. You .will expatiate with none the less 'delfglit, amid 'God's: own iir ohiteeture; for letting • His' lowly" children have a sight of it as well: as yourselves: , Suppose , yon, send- a contribution-to your. Pastor, toward . ; a FB.ESH-AIR FUND, for giv ing some 'of your poor brothers and sisters occasional trips, if only in the steamboats plying short distances from the city. - • EIIDGE'F- OF -ANEODOTES EWe cull a number of .these stories from the Report .of the Third,, National Sunday school Convention just published by. J. C. Gerrinmes & Co., of Mr: William Reinolds of Illinois, said: "I taught a . class pnce without results, continued the, speakei‘. It troubled me sorely. I told' my tronbleslce a Minister of Chria who was staying with mel. You lack faith,' he. said. Have you ever taken. your scholars one by one, and asked them personally why they were not Chris tiaßs?" No, I. never have.' 'Well, there your difficulty.° Yon have lacked' faith in the vir tue of such direct labor with them. Take your class now, and: ask each one of them personally, What, keeps you,,,my; dear frozethe Lord Jesus Christ?' Let us go apart and pi:ay for your scholars." We went ,to an upper room, and prayed that God would give me, as the teacher, eiicla one of my scholars on the very next 'day. The next 'day was the Sabbath. I resolved thgt I Would' honor God by believing His i ,proinises. There was no unusual religious interest' in' the school As I longed "and prayed for my &qua, my faith increase - 4. I pleaded:' 0 Lorkfor Thy name's sake, fOr Jesus' sake, for these dear souls' sake ctive . file all my scholars for Thee, on the Morro* I' I went to my class the next ,day with feelings never had before. r taught, the'les soW. apPlied it. 'Anne, when' do you expect to he a ChiiStien?' I don't know, Mr. Rey nolds!' , you" feel that you ought to be one now Yes, sir. Anne, will you not mar render heart to Jean's- She burst into teirS. I faithfully, spoke to the next, and 'the nexcuntil.:n4 five' scholars were in tears, and one ortheinsaid to Won't you please Meet us id 'a prayer-pieeting 'at," our house, Mr. Itey nolds ?' With pleasure.' • I went there. We knelt in praydr,'..:and everyone of them, 'there Upon their kneei, gave iheinselves away to Jesiis, and they are 'earnest Christians to-day, three of them in niy Sabbath-school, leading others to the same Saviour >I tookianother class s and pursued the same course.. All but one were converted to Christ." .• , The ,venerable' Dr. Tyng , told the following , :, When "they formed the American 'Board of , Comm6siciners'foe'yoreign Missions, my father, who was a Stern EpiScopalian dn4 a lawyer, ridihg ; in the stage With old Dr. Spring, the fa thei• of .Gardiner Spring (for Gardiner Spring; and I were born Within a mile'of each other) when the neWS came that Judson and Note and their companionS'had.joined the Baptist Church in I'ndia, My 'father said to 'Dr,. Spring, Doetor, I understand that your'' Chickens have' turned out ducks I' [Laughter.] Old D r . Spring replied, Yes, Judge , and I should like .to sit on hen's eggs all my e long if they would hatch such ducks as they are I'. [A.pplause Let men read the life '-of man '.Tudson., 'Why, I would' let such a man as that carry 'me! d'oWn to the bottom of the Bea!' "Thirty years age in Philadelphia there came one Saturday night a terrific snow-storm that :filled the streets three Or font', feet 'deep with snots 'biitike. I went to church thinking that I would be alone. One little girl I found - of six teen years of age, pp to her hips in a snow-bank, ant:l:utterly unalikkto•get opt.. She had walked froin 'Ninth stied Ite above' Broad` Che'sinut, and hadleft ter shoes somnwhere upon the road, she emit:V.:not tell 'where." found her et the door. *mild 'you like to know the history'of that girl ? - I traced the conversion" of twenty five of my young people to the ministry of that, She 'Was 'Made the' wife Of a faithful young`min ister, and died within' two years after her Mat -1 rine.. She 'went'-into her Wcirk fot Christ sim ply to do good:' She 'would get three.or.fotif of her half-gtoWnAmys ,of the .Sitticlay• school 'to Wait upon lier home, arid' She wonidia.kel bud or the& to her house, and one after another used toepttie to 'inie ,and,*hem asked'-' the lqueitiott,''4,hat baried-' ion Ito 'Beekrir Savieur's 'lave ?''-they-mii.- tioned this sweet and charming name—till I traced twenty-five, at least, among my young peo ple who were converted through her : prayers and labors—and among them, that beloved son of mine at whose bedside I sat for sixteen long hours wondering why God had taken him, and left me behind. This was the character of the girl. Nothing, kept her back. And she did a spiritual work." "I knew a young girl intimately. I saw her almost every day. She was a beautiful child, surrounded by all that and affection could bring. Some of my brothers here knew her fa ther, for he was President of the Young Men's Christian Association in Cincinnati. His resi dence Was e magnificent mansion on'a beautiful hill , near? : , the city. By home instruction and ' Sunday-school ibstructifm, she, in early, life gave her heart to Jesus. ..One sad Saturday, turning around suddenly when near the fire, her dress caught, 'add' alinost in an instant "she was envel oped In flames. Her sexism' brought, her father to ,her ~zoom,• and oh I'what a 'scene for him to I. look upon ! What lorror must have crept into I that fond fatyer's ,. heart! He said he never dreamt whit misery was till that moment. He speedily extinguished' tffe - flames, and, finding they-had, not-reached -the ,child's head, nor ap parently • liad time to bun her severely - , he thoUght himself the happiest, man. in all tine ivorld 1 .forAiis darlidgwai.safe; He laid her on• the ,bed, and, began at once to apply such sooth ing remedies , ,as he could command. Soon the child asked, i'Fitber,howlon,g mUst, I suffer this • intense deny ?' Oh, not long, Helen. Only an hour, Phoph.f. For three-quarters of an hour she : did not, murmur nor utter; a, cry, nor )say,; ''How, near dear father, how near is the hour , •up ?' What submission in ,suffering .was there I At ihe poor father'said,"' I hope in'fiftnen minUteST,Helen, you will be relieved froth this great pain: • ,T • ' • ' !f The physician 9arne, daynfter day. Mr. Neff •at last saw by :his: _c9driten,ance something that aroused his sdspleions that his - daughter would not get well. ` Doctor,' he said, do not keeP anything riiedir.'' • Thepoor man ivto was an intimate friend burst into tears as he re-' plied,,' Grod.knia,wa, Mr...Neff that, I wish I ,could; do something more .for Helen,. but I have done, t'he last thing in my: power; she must die, I am afraid, before to=morrow`' Never, as that 'father . -told'ilie,•neVer 'had he experienced such feelings: • Oh ! how can I tell her ?' He went to, ,her, at last,. took her hand, ini his, and,. with rail the calmness be could command, said Helen, yod area very sick little YeS, pa, I liticlw Helen poor father' codld"sbarcelylframe his words, but`' God taught Helen; sometimes little girls who areas sipkia, you,!lip vurylong nick.' 'Yes,,Papa,,l know that' He could scarcely go further, but at last had strength given him to ' say, '•MY . defir child,. sometimes little girls as sick as , yen are do not get: well at all.' The. child turned her ,eye, beautifill,andbright,•upon add said : 'Pa, lam not afraid to die !' God be praised fora religion` that can enable a child, in such swe,etrtrustfulness, to titter that testimony! That day was one of farewells to parents and grandparents and brothers and .sisters. Her brother kissed, her, and said, Helen,, you must forgive me tor often annoying you.' . 0, brother Wallie; I'hiVe` nothing to forgive. I want yen to ask Jesus to forgive you, and make you his dear boy.' • He has , asked Jesus; and since his; sisters death has united with the Church. Then her parents .bade her farewell • and just before midnight she asked them to sing 'Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy`, bosom '"fly;' • , • . and She sang, clearly and 'beautifully, without a , tremor in - her,vOice, through it all. Then she commeneed the Lord's Prayer, and that fat:het said he never heard thewords, 'Thy will be done in earth as in •heaven,' uttered as she 'uttered them. When she olosed the prayer. she seemed to be, for a time breathitig an inaudible prayer, itid it 'l2 'o'clock the BridegrOckm'S Voice'was heatd,- and, H'elen:weni out to meet him, arid the door was shut, and. Helen 'went into-the marriage supper, of the,L,mb."-11.,Thane Perhaps three months - ago," said Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr.;'" a Man came tO'see'tne who' said : am one•of thewiekedest men in the city of New York. I have lived a life of •ciime. I have been constantly, in prison, your, times I have, served out a State's Prison term . And here am. I Want to 'be a 'Christian min.' What on earth brought you so far uptown, to Me? why did you not go tau minister near?' I don't - know why, I came up, •litt I want to see you and- talk With you, The fact of the matter is, when—l was in prison I heard that you ,were ; being tried:---- [great artplanse,&r Some time continued,] and I. thought that we' 'had Something, common'!' [Renewed applause:l - that, man,,through the very agencies which have been despribe,d,, has been entirely re covered. 4e his engaged; to a ,woman who, through all , his career of criine, has been faithful and Mlle and - loving, th liim,'whose influence 'has always been on the side of , godline.ss• and. Virtue, who has,restrained him with'all the power of:her affection, and while he has been incarcerated has been patiently waiting for him, looking out of her lattice, wendering why his Ohitriot wheels tarried. This woman has now become his wife. 'We. got them a little house,.Bo/Pq'furniture, and,put-them, in it, and the other dayithis man whom many of us would have - feared to ,meet, and whose very 'naive, if I WerelO•merititifi if in the city ,of New `York; would' be reeognized; cattle to me to' join itc church fellowship , with my people... His acred father came my study , and said., bless GO - a that He has giyen friends in this great city t o my poor ontcaat boy! He was lost and - he is - fontid again ; he was dead and is alive again.'" • - Mr. Stuart!alludel to, a somewhat similar , case of, onewhowas - found in. the city of Philadelphia, an infidel, who had been everywhere in iniquity,' bat who was taken in hand'byphristian men led' to the prayet-meefing;*beie' he give his heart to' Christ; and , although many ministers of the gospel, and: a good manynexeellent.layman, shrtig gekthehl shoulders, and said that, they= were fear= fulof ! these sucldeq conversions, yo4pg , niati iii - i3O;d4Ouileriiitendeniof the A'ew York City a . fidniiief Ofthe gospel of .Tegiikarlgt; fitida is i dcfMettemtiob"wo` hr . the. Maker' )hiqiii; &deny sother Mihistenin that', city,: Beta- ]uded to his friend and brother, the Rev. George J. Milagins. Mr. Geo H. Stuart, in the closing address, used effectively an illustration from his exper ience during the war, when Dr. Kirk and him self were in the woods in Virginia, trying to reach their destination for the night. They sup posed themselves armed with the necessary coun tersign, but.found, to their dismay, that a wrong one had been given to them. Challenged by the sentinel, who bade him " Advance and give the countersign !" Mr., Stuart replied, "Genesee!" " No ! Mr. Stuart, you have not got it !"—the sentinel was, a Sunday-school boy who knew the speaker. They could not pass, but had to retrace their steps, seciire. the Word, .and on replying again to the challenge, "Afassachusetts !" they were permitted to 'pasS. "`Have"you got the other countersign, xoy,,boy 7". asked Mi. Stuart of the soldier as he passed him. "Yes, thank God, I have 1" " What is it r; "The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ!" was.the doldier's . Sinners outni,Chiist to, -night ! at the judg ment bar of God;whe.ti you are called upon for the countersign, there will. be no, retreating, no remedy for mistakes;. but now,. while I speak, even now ; without money and without price, you may receive this precious. pass-ivord—" The blood of Jesus Christ !" —which —which cleanseth from all sin and will admit you within - the - gates into the holy city; the. New Uerusaleta. • MISSIONARY ITEMS. - . --The estimate of the 0. S. Board of Foreign Missions for ,the _current year's work required $350,000. .The, disbursements of the year which closed ,May Ist were $316,658; the receipts, from all smirbes, were $335,330; and this difference reduced"-the 'debt =to $5,437 - .60. The enlarge mentsaf the ziission's will , aall kir an increase in the receipts of nearly ten per cent, or with the debt, of about elev,en. per cent. There are,-at the present time, under appointment one missionary fox' Japan, four - for China, and one on his way ; onelo India,-one to Brazil and two whose field is not yet designated: One has lately applied to go,to the' Indians or to South America. One young,-lady is appointed to Brazil, and two to India. Most.of those will sail during the sum mer. --The field is marvellously open for Evan gelistic work in Prance. Prayful and faithful effort in 'the villages is universally rewarded by a good measure Of success. So says a writer in behalf of the Evangelical Society and Free Church of France. =Rev: E: Comae, 0. S. Missioniry to Japan, speaks of - the pressure upon the authorities to re peal the edict against -Christianity,, and says:— "The opinion is quite prevalent among the Japa nese that Christianity is going soon to spread among the people." —Rev. T. S. Wynkoop, writing from Allaha bad, says: This city seems a gireat battle ground. Christianity, Mohammedanism and Hinduism, all full of argument and assertion. The voice of the Mohammedan preacher mingles with that of the Christian, in the same bazar; and .a man stand ing mid-way, between the speakers may hear the name of Mohammed in'orie ear, and of Jesus in tbe other, while not far away, the pundit is sing ing the praises of Ram and` rishna." pltdg,e of total abstineuce• from wine and all spirituous liquors is requiied as a condition of admission to the Theological Seminary of the Western Turkey Mission, at Marsovan. In that wine producing country, it is felt that the only safety to the churches is to be found in pastors who are not only temperate, but total abstinence men. The' wills 'of• intempera.nce are au keenly felt by the women in one of the Syrian villages that they promise to give up the Virgiti Mary if the men would, only- give up their wine. In the Nestorian Mission the most strenuous efforts are made to bring up the native Christians to the high ground of total abstinence.. It is one of the most difficult reforias to effects among a peo ple long, habituated ; to the free and excessive use of wine. PB.AYIN . O AND ORKIN G.— I like that say ing of Ma r tin Luther, when he says, "I have so much business to do to-day, that I. shall not be able to get through it with less than three 'hours' 'prayer." Now, most people would say; I have so mubh business to do to day, that' have-only three minutes for pray er: I cannot afford the time." But Luther thought that , the more he had to do, the More he must pray, or else he could not get through it That is'a blessed kind of logic: may we understand it " Prltying and prov ender hinder no-man's journey." If we have to stop and, pray, . . it is no more a hindrance than when the rider has to stop at the farrier's to have' his horse's shoe fastened; for if he went on without attending to that, it may be that ere long hi would come to a stop of a far more serious , kind.—a R. 'Spurgeon.
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