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VOLUME XXVII.
SONG.
RV JOHN G. WHITHER.
The hiirp at Nature's advent strung
Has never ceased to play ;
The song the stars of morning snng
Has never died away.
And prayer is made, and praise is given,
By all things near and far ;
The ocean looketh up to heaven,
And mirrors every star.
Its waves are kneeling on the strand,
As kneels the human kuee,
Their white locks bowing to the sand,
The priesthood of the sea!
They pour their glittering treasures forth,
Their gifts of pearl they bring,
And all the listening hills of earth
Take up the song they sing.
The green earth sends her incense up
From many a mountain shrine ;
From folded leaf and dewy cup
She pours her sacred wine.
The mists above the morning rills
Rise white as wings of prayer ;
The altar curtains of the hills
Are sunset's purple art.
The winds with hymns of praise are loud,
Or low with sobs of pain,
Ths thunder-organ of the cloud.
The dropping tears of rain.
With drooping head and branches crossed
The twilight forest grieves,
Or speaks with tongnes of Pentecost
From all its sunlit leaves.
The blue sky is the temple's arch.
Its transept earth and air,
The music of its starry march
The chjnis of a prayer.
So nature keeps the reverent frame
With which her years began,
And all her signs and voices shame
The prayerless heart of man.
STORY FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS
THE LITTLE BROOK, AND WHAT HUGH
LEARNED FROM IT.
Away up among the mountains, a
little stream started out up u its
winding way—upon its journey to
the great ocean, whither journey all
the streams and rivers. Cheerily and
merrily sang the little t pring as it
bubbled out from beneath the rocks
and lormed its own little channel to
ruu in, over the stones and dry leaves
and broken branches. White and
clean were the stones washed by the
pure, clean water. And leaves and
broken branches seemed quite con
tent to lie there and let the waters
play among them. On, on ran the
stream, singing its pleasant song all
through the woods, to the trees and
birds and squirrels, to lonely travel
lers aud to all passers by—never
stopping, always running swifter and
growing broader as it drew nearer to
the river that would lead it to its
journey's end. " What a pretty
brook it is !" thought Hugh as he sat
down beside the swift, clear waters.
" But I wish it would not run away
so fast. I'll build up a great dam to
stop it—it shall stay with me a while.'
So Hugh built up a wall across the
brook, and filled the cracks with clay
aud gravel, and thought it seemed
quite strong &Hd tight. But the wa
ters were uneasy, they could not stay,
they had no time to waste in just
amusing idle Hugh, they struggled
to get free and go onward on their
course. And Boon they found the
way ; they forced a passage-way in
spite of stones and clay, and then
they ran so swiftly on that they wash
ed away the dam and once again
were free. And again they sang
their pleasant song aud ran on even
faster than before, to make up for
lost time. Hugh threw great stones
in, bnt the water only ran over or
around them, making little ripples
and looking all the prettier. Then
he threw in great logs and strong
branches, but he could not stop the
waters nor hinder them one minute.
" Oh, tiresome little brook !" cried
Hugh, " why will you hurry on so
fast ? Why, I don't live so ; I stop
a little while, every now and then, to
rest. I am running on like you ;
Time carries me on fast, yet I don't
mind a minute, now and then. I
have time enough to wait, or go a
little slowly, or even to be idle—why
can't you do the same ?" But the
little stream only answered with its
song, that seemed to say—" Onward,
onward, I have a work to do, I can
not stop ; I take my play-time as I
go. I have a work to do." Hugh
had a work to do ; we'll spend a day
with him aud see just how he works:
we'll see if he is earnest and faithful
like the little stream. Hugh is
leep in bed now, we'll be with him
in the morning when he wakes.
" Time to get up, Hugh !" and his
mother tries to rouse her sleepy boy.
" Yes, in a minute, mother. But
the minute was full half an honr, and
even then Hugh rose very slowly,
and Btopped a minute half way out
of bed, to try if he could put both
feet into one slipper,—it was big
enough, be thought. " And what is
that on the floor ? why it is the bit of
rubber I had on the end of my pen
cil, I'll just fasten it on now." And
Hugh hunted up his. pencil, but the
rubber did not fit, it would not stay
in its place. So Hugh threw it away
saying, " I'll get another by and by.
I must sharpen my pencil, thoagb,
for the poiut is as dull as dull as the
other end ; I can't tell which is the
end to write with. What a fiue thing
it would be to have Imth ends sharp
ened." This was done, and then
Hugh must see how they would write;
and then be remembered he must
I hunt up a piece of paper to take to
school ; he often wanted some there
to write on. The key to his writing
case was missing, but he found it,
and found too that his case was all
out of order ; so he stopped to put
things straight.
" Hugh, are you nearly ready ?"
called his mother, " it is gettiug very
Lite, and you have your lesson yet to
learn."
So Hugh began to dress. " I won
der how many button-holes I could
fasten on one button—four, five, six
—oh dear ! there's the button oft'.''—
And Susan had to come and sew it
on. " What's the matter with my
cuffs, —some how they don't look like
mine. I'll measure with one of my
others. Yes, they are just the same,
but I wish they were made like Frank
Smith's ; his ire ever so much nicer.'
By and by Hugh was dressed. He
knelt down to say say his prayers,
but forgot to ask to be made indus
trious aud kept from wasting his
time ; he forgot that the Good Fath
er loves to see his children earnest
and faithful in the work they have to
do. " What's on my book, I wond
er." Hugh had found a little spot
and could not study till he had tried
to scrape it off Then lie began to
learn his lesson, and only stopped
now and then to wonder how in the
world the cornice was fastened up in
its place, and then to watch ally on
the window pane, aud wonder if it
had only four legs instead of *ix.—
Then a little mouse ran out into the
room aud Hugh stopped to give it
some crubs, and atterwards to hnnt
up the trap and set it. And so break
fast time came and found the lesson
not half learned. Hugh had to get
his luneheou ready, then to strap his
books, and when was all through,
only five minutes were left him for
his breakfast.
Just us the clock struck, Hugh
reached school all out of breath from
his run. The unlearned lesson trou
bled him all day ; he had no time to
study it; he missed and was kept
in. Coming home, Hugh loitered to
look in at the shop windows, or talk
with the boys, or follow a crowd to
see what was the matter. So much
time was wasted that he lost his play
hour, and had to go right to work at
next day's lessons. The lessons
dragged ; Hugh thought of fifty oth
er things, and stopped for many tri
fles. He was tired and uncomforta
ble ; nothing had gone right all day.
Hugh thought of the little brook and
of the long distance it had journey
ed ou since early morning ; and he
himself—had he gone onward or back
ward ? The little brook still sang
its merry song, but Hugh was tired
and unhappy. The brook had cheer
ed many as it ran along : Hugh had
disappointed and annoyed his parents
and his teachers by his slow and idle
ways Hugh began to think. The
little brook was wiser than he alter
all ; and happier too. And the (freat
Father above, who had made both
Hugh and the brook, had looked down
upon them that day, and was better
pleased with the little stream of wa
ter than with the boy who knew so
much more, and who had received
such numberless gifts and blessings
to make him wise and good and
happy.
" Oh, little brook," sighed Hugh,
" I wish I had gone steadily on like
you. I am tired of stopping and
wasting my time ; and to-night I'm
not gay aud merry like you. But
to-morrow I'll think of you all day
long, little brook, and try to do just
as you do ; for I too want to be hap
py and to please the Great Father
above.— .V. V. Observer.
LATINO CP FOR CHILDREN. —Parental
affection uaturally inquires what it
can best do for the welfare of its chil
dren in future years, and wheu the
bosom that now throbs with love to
its offspring shall be cold in death.
Many plans are laid, and many hours
of anxious solicitude are speut in con
triving ways and means of rendering
children prosperous and happy in fu
ture life. But parents are not always
wise in the provisions they seek to
make for their children ; nor do they
always seek direction and counsel
from God in this matter. The best
inheritance for children, be, ond all
contradiction, is true piety 1 vards
God, the salutary truths aud princi
ples of religion laid up in the hearts
of the .children—a good education —
good and virtuous habits—unbending
principles of moral conduct—the fear
of God, and the hope of Heaven.—
This is the inheritance for children,
and whicn all parents should be most
anxious to lay up for them.
Many au unwise parent works hard
and lives sparingly all his life,for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children a start in the world, as it is
called. Setting a young man afloat
with money left him by his relatives,
is like tying bladders under the aru.s
of one who cannot swim ; ten chan
ces to one he will lose the bladders,
or go to the bottom. Teach him to
swim, and he will not need the blad
ders.
Give your children a sound educa
tion. See to it that his morals are
pure, nis miud cultivated, and hiß
whole nature made subservent to the
laws which govern man, and you
have given what will be more valu
able than the wealth of the Indies.—
You have given him a start which no
misfortune cau deprive him of. The
earlier you teach him to depeud upon
his own resources and the blessings
of God the better.
IN a charity sermon iu behalf uf
the BlinH Asylum, the preacher gravely re
marked, "If all the world were blind, what
a melancholy light it would be."
WHILE you are getting rich, try to
get hold of that kind of wealth that brings
content with it, or you will be rich to little
purpose
SOME one says human heads are
like hogsheads—the less they contain, the
i leader we repot t they give of theaselve*.
HEOARDLEBB OF DBKCTJCIATIOS FROM ANY QrARTEK
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., APRIL 11,1867.
(From the Toledo Blade.)
NABBY.
Mr. Nnsbu desires Confirmation—ls advised
hoic to Proceed by the Presedmt, hut rejects
the Proposition tcith scorn.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, 1867.
Washington agin ! Wat changes
hev bin made in the last two yeers !
Not in Washington, for this delight
ful abode uv oftlshl purity hezu't
changed a particle, nor never will.
' From the summit uv Willard's hotel
! 1 kin see now, ez 1 did a yeer ago,
| the same sign uv " steamed oysters,"
| in front, the Capitle towerin over the
trees at the tother end uv the Ave
j noo, aud behind the Pattent Offis and
Post Oftis buildins, the first the Mec
ca uv every Dimokrat and the tother
uv every Yaukee who comes her.*.
No ! Washiutou aint changed, but I
hev. Formerly when 1 visited Wash
inton it wuz tite times with me, Wil
lard's wuz my hotel, then ez uow.—
Chadwick, him uv the towerin hite,
rotund abdomen, side whiskers, and
round hat, wuz then ez now my land
lord. In them days, before the hap
py return uv A. Johnson to reason
put sum thousand Democrats, who
bed more stumick than money aud
more appetite than small change, in
to oftis, and, per couBekece,into con
dition to pay their bdls.l wuz a guest
at this hotel, wich is to say I slept on
the 6teps uv the Capitle, and took or
tried to take my meals at Chad wick's
bountiful board. Ef 1 bed no cur
rency I Led taste, and ez I wuz forag
in for subsistence, I alluz made it a
point to forage on the richest paster
fields. It is ez easy to check a first
class dinner ez it is a second class,
and besides, I felt that sich a hotel
ez Willard's wuz better able to stand
sich boarders ez 1 wuz then them uv
less patronage. 1 kepi away from
tother hotels out uv sympathy for the
proprietors. Never shel I forget my
last visit here. 1 hed run the dinin
room guardian-angel fur a week, and
wuz congratulatiu myself un another
week at least, when Chadwick stop
ped me hisself, and the folleriu con
versashen ens >od :
" My friend," sed he in wiuuin toues.
" Davis Garret is my name !" sez I
promptly.
"We hear enuff," sez he. "Listen!
I've let yoo run a week, coz it's my
regler practis. Yoo hed a hungry
look, but by this time yoo out to be
filled up and able to go a week at
least without eatiu. Ez yoo amt uv
no earthly use to anybody, and make
no pretentious to bein ornamental—
git 1" and three well directed kicks
laudid me onto the side-walk.
But I hev forgiven him. He treats
me well. He hez confidence in me
uow, I heviu paid him in advance.
It's a rool he hez, he jocosely remark
ed, with men uv my pecooller cast
uv countenance, to hev em pay in ad
vance. He says it's much the best
way. Hevin paid, sich men ez me
feel more comfortable about the
house and so do the proprietors. It's
me that's changed—l hev money to
pay my bills. Bless the lord for
Seward, Johnson, Randall and other
luxuries.
But pleasant ez it is to contrast
my former poeishen with my present
proud one, I bev not time to dwell
upon reminiscences. Lite is short ; I
am a practicle man, and tho it may
be pleasant to linger for a moment
onto memry's plesant fields,l cannot
My biznis in Washiuton is precisely
what every Democrat's biznis is here:
to git confirmed. It aint no trouble
for a Kentucky Democrat to git ap
pointed, for the President hez so far
relaxed his rules in this pertikeler ez
to appint them ez wuznt never in the
Confedrit army, but to git confirmed
is the pinch. There's the gauntlet
uv au Ablißhn Senit to run, and good
Lord wat a kuowledge they hev uv
the out-gnins and in eomins uv ap
pointees !
The President and Postmaster-
Genera! Randall wuz extremely anx
ious for my confirmashet ; so much
so, that they advised me to resort to
the strategy now so common in the
North.
" Go back on me for the time bein,"
sed that trooly great and good man
who adorns the sofas in the Presi
denshel Mansion. " Wilcox em.—
That's yoor only holt, Wilcox em. I
advised him to do it and gee how it
worked "
" My dear sir," sed 1, carried away
by this new and experienced display
of greatness, " Kin yoo bear to hev
me who bears yoor banner in Ken
tucky bend the knee to au Ablisheu
Senit, and repoodiate yoo, even for
an hour? It is safe in my case, for
my nateral affinities are with yoo,
but don't, I beg uv yoo, advise all
uv them to so do. My deer sir, two
thirds uv them will go out for con
firmashen, and, ef successful, will
forgit to return.
But the great and good Johnson
wood take no denials. " Draw up,"
sed he, " a letter to a conservativ
member uv Congress, explain yoor
connection with me, and—"
And overkum with emoshen, he
bust into tears,
Sadly I undertook the task, and
after four hours uv intense labor, the
follerin wuz completed :
" Hon. , House uv Reps.
41 My dear Sir : My conflrmashen
by the Senit uv the Yoonited States
to the posishen uv Postmaster at the
Confedrit X Roads, wich is iu the
State uv Kentucky, bein somewhat
jeopardized by ray uperashens in the
politikle field doorin the past two
years, I Lev the honor to explaue
that, not withstand iu the fact that I
wuz an original Democrat, early in
the war I took up anus for the pres
ervation uv our beloved Yoonion.—
The precise date 1 cannot give, owin
to the demoralized coudisheu uv my
mind at the time, but that yoo kin
assertane for yourselves. It wuz
about two weeks after the fust dratt.
That I laid down arms agin ez soon
s the regiment a truck Southern sile
will not, when, when the motives
wich actooated me are known, be al
lowed to weigh agin me. It bez bin
sed I desertid to the euemy— so it
wuz sed uv Joh Champe, but histrv
Bubsekently vindicated him—be went
to ketch Arnold. I will not stop to
reply to my defamers.but ef it comes
out finally that I went for the purpose
uv satisfyin the rebels by okular do
monstrasheu that they bed nothiu to
hope lor from the Northern Demo
crats, uv whom I wuz a average
specimen, wat kin my enemies say
then?
I do not deny that 1 wuz a ardent
supporter uv President Johnson from
the beginuin uv his career. I wuz
filled with a drafted man's magnani
mity toward a conkered foe, and up
to the very day I reserved my eoin
mishen I favored cousilitory meas
ures. I accompanied him on his—l
will not say disgraceful, for he is my
sooperior officer—tour toro the North
ern States, and slung my hat higher
nor anybody else's at his—l will not
say drunken, for reasons above meu
shuued—speeches, and aboozed the
highly intelligent populaces at Cleve
land, Injeauapolis, Springfield, and
other pints in a manner wich, now
that I think of it, wnz trooly shame
ful. Also I organized a Johnson
party in various parts uv the North
ern States, and viggerously support
in members uv Congress pledged to
the policy nv wich I wuz, at the time,
a deceeved supporter. About this
time I wuz appinted Postmaster, and,
fiadin I needed confirmashen, my
views undergoed a Kadikle chauge.
Time and observashen hev taught
me that instid uv consilatheu, ooer
siieu is our best holt, and that now
military measures are necessary in
the South,'on til them rebeilyus people
completely acquiesce in the terms
imposed by Cougris for restorashen.
My present views on this interestin
tropic is best defiued by the resent
speeches uv flon. Charles Sumner,
the eminent and trooly great Senator
from the enlitened State uv Massa
chusetts, and also by the recent ut
terances uv them lovable Represent
atives, Hon. Thadeus Stevens, uv
Pennsylvauy, Hon. & Gen. Benj. F.
Butler, uv Massachoosits, and Hon.
Jas. M. Ashley, uv Ohio, in all uv
whose sentiments, sich ez they hev
now, and also them ez they hev alluz
bed, ez well ez them wich they may
hereafter hev, 1 most heartily and en
tirely concur.
With this explanasbeu wieti I hope
will prove entirely satisfactoiy, and
with tlnv addishiuel asshoorence that
I aiu now a very warm supporter uv
the Congressional policy, and that
when 1 look back and see wat I hev
bin a doin for the past two years, I
so loathe myself that 1 kin hardly
be restrained from sooiaidin, may 1
ask yoo to personally urge my con
firmashen in the Senit ?
Trooly and Respectfully Yoore,
PETROLEUM V. NASBY.
I read this epitle to A. Johnson,
who wuz pleased to approve it, and
also to Randall, who wuz delitcd
with it, and to Wells, who alter forc
ing me to read it twice over, wautid
to know if it had anything to <io
with the Navy Department, and, and
then returned to the President with
my mind fully made up that 1 never
would seud that document.
"Wat?" said he, Btartin back as
tonished. " Not send it ?"
"Never!" sed I, "Never! Sich
things may do for Postmasters and
Assessors wich you took from the
Republikin ranks, bat not for me. I
hev done many things which perhaps
woodent holdout 60 lbs. to the bushel
—I voted for Peerce, and likewise
for Bookannon, and supported em in
all their various doins, besides other
mean things too tejus to tnenshun,
but my sensitive soul recoils at ilns,
my proud stumick revolts. I leave
it for yoor Ousters and Wiicoxes and
sich, no Kentucky Piuiokrat kin
Let em refoose to confirm me at
their peri! lam the only Dimokrat
in ten miles who kin write, and they
dare not, by turnin me out, deprive
Kentucky, wich never seceded, uv >
mail facilities.
" Brave man !" exclaimed Johnson,
in a husky voice, and his eyes suf
fused with tears, falliu onto my neck
and weepin profooßeiy down my
back, "let em hist you. Ef they do, 1
pledge yoo my word, and will give
joo sekorrity now if yoo desire it,
that yoo sbel hev a partnership with
Mrs. Cobb, which is worth a score uv
Post Offices.
I hev alluz noticed that vichoo is
its own reward.. By bein troo, wat
a feeld is now open to me ? Let the
Senit do its worst.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M.,
iWich is Postmaster), und likewise Profess
or uv Bibiikle Politicks ih the Southern
Claaikle Military Institoot.
A YOCN'O lawyer,who had long paid
his court to a lady without much ad
vancing his suit,accused her one day
of being insensible to the power of
love. "It does not follow," she archly
replied, "that I am 80 because I am
not to be won by the jxjwcr of attorn
ey.'" "Forgive me," replied the suit
or, "but you should remember that
all the votaries of Cupid are golictt
ors."
"Yoc dou't seem to know how to
take me," said a vulgar boy to a gentleman
whom he had insulted. "Yes, I did,"
said the gentleman : "by the nose,"
A FRIEND says he kuows of but
one branch of employment which is very
profitable, and but little followed. Find that
is, "mind your own business.
THE mostest fuu for the leistest
money—Having a pretty girl to kiss you on
both cheeks, and then say she "thought it
was cousin Tom."
A PHILOSOPHER who married a vul
gar but amiable girl, used to call her "brown
sugar, ' because, he said, "she was sweet,
but unrefined."
DISCIPLINE should be ever active,
i both as a support, and as a restraint yet
I seen to U easily rnfaaed.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHRIS
TIAN CHURCHES AND 8- SCHOOLS
IN BRADFORD COUNTY.
In compliance with a resolution of
the Sunday School Association at our
last annual meeting, the Executive
Committee have the pleasure of pre
senting to you as their report of our
doings since our first organization
in 1863.
The necessity of an organization
like our present one, was apparent
for several years before to quite a
number of its present members, and
efforts for an organization resulted in
a meeting being called at Towanda
in June, 1863, at which, and at two
subsequent meetings, in September
aud December, the plans were laid
for active work iu the following
spring, which resulted in securing
the services of Rev. R. Crittenden,
of Connecticut, who was commission
ed by the Americ-n Sunday School
Union to work under our guidance iu
this county.
He has been h'-re since them con
stantly at wt lk. and we refer you to
the reports iod tabular statements
heiewiti* presented, as the result of
of his labors.
We Lave learned by his exaraina
j tions of the county, that there is a
j very great work to do ; and we are
I also cjuv need that, under God, our
; Association is the best organization
|to carry the Sunday School to the
destitute parts ot the county. We
•do not propose to interfere with, or
supercede the work of any Evangeli
cal Church organization, but leave to
! them in every neighborhood this work
■ where there is the ability and zeal to
carry it on, but in the neighborhoods
where there are no regular ministra
tions of the Gospel, nor numbers or
material strength sufficient to organ
ize a church, we propose by uniting
! the strength of combined effort, to
seek out thoee places and plant the
j Sunday School, which we trust will
; be in all cases followed by the preach
ing of the Gospel and the establisb
| inent of the ministry. This is <>ur
1 work, to this we direct our effort, and
; as we have such abundant evidence
of the Divine blessing, as the statis
tical tables annexed show, we look
forward confidently to the time when
I our whole connty wiil be dotted over
with houses where the Gospel shall
• be preached in its simplicity, and the
. Truth, as it is Jesus, made known ev
| cry Sabbath.
i We invito the help of every pro
j feßsor of religion in our county in
i this work. BV need your counsel,
•yourprayers and your means. You
can give us your counsel by attending
our regular meetings when held, as
they are. in different parts of the
county, four times a year. You can
give us your prayers at all times and
under ail circumstances, and you can
give us your means, regularly and
annually, by collections in the church
es, in the schools, and by private
subscription. Our means are used
exclusively to pay the salary of our
Missionary and the necessary sta
tionery and printing. Nothing else
no travelling or any other expensee.
\\ fiope in the ensuing spring to
have depository >f Sunday School
Books established at Towanda. where
Sunday School Literature can be sup
plied at publishers prices, adding on
ly cost of transportation.
It will be our aim to do uie work
efficiently and practically, and com
mending it to your earnest attention,
We remain,
Your brethren in Ohrist,
B. S. KCSSRLL, President
ABSTRACT FROM THE TRKASURKR'S RE
PORT
Sunday Schools which have made
an annual contribution to the Sunday
School Association during the year
ending September 25th, 1806 :
c <Jak Hill Sunday School, bister
™ Mountain Lake Union Sunday School.
Union S. S., Rome Borough, 2.
Hinsdale Union Sunday School, Home.
Camptown Union Sunday School.
Lcßaysville Congregational S. S., 2.
Smithfield " " 2.
Christ Church S. S., Towanda.
Terrytown Union Sunday School.
Baptist Church Sunday School, Towanda.
Pond Hill U.S. S-, Wysox.
Prospect Hill F. 8. S., Burlington
Lanes' Corners "
Orwell Hill Presbyterian Sunday School.
Standing Stone Urnon Sunday School
South Burlington " "
Mt. Pleasant
Franklin Center
Spring Lake (Pooltown) U. S. S.
Stevens ville Presbyterian Church S. S.
Wvalusing Presbyterian S. S.
* •• M. E. Sunday School.
Brown town Union Sunday School.
Tavlorville " " "
Presbyterian Church S S., lowanda
East Troy Union Sunday School.
Warren Center Sunday School.
Catnp's School House S. S., Herriek
Leßov Union Sunday School.
Franklindale Union Sunday School.
The above -statement, compared
with the reports of church accessions
from the Sabbath Schools, exhibits
an important principle in Divine
economy.
The ten townships which report the
largest number of accessions to the
churches have made the largest con
tributions to this Association. While
#3 per* Annum, in Advance.
on the other hand, the ten townships
that have contributed little or noth-
ing in aid of this mission work of
the county, report few or no conver
sions or church additions from the
Sunday Schools. Of eleven town
ships which report no accessions to
the churches, only one is reported as
having made an annual contribution
to the County Sunday School Associ
ation. Do we not herein discover a
very noticeable proof of the fact,
that there is always a correspondence
between what men do for God and
what God does for men. " The liber
al sonl shall be made fat; and Le
that watereth shall be watered also
himself."
We earnestly hope that all our
.Superintendents will encourapf ail
the scholars, even the youngest, to
bring an annual offering to the Sab
bath School cause of our county,
feeling assured that nineteen of ev
ery twenty of the children will cheer
fully respond. Thus will our youth
enjoy an experimental proof of the
truth of our Savior's words, "It is
more blessed to give than to receive.'
N. N. BKTTS, JR.,
Treasurer Bradford Co. 8. 8. A.
SUMMARY or rus WORK OF THF, BRAD
FORD COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL MIS
SIONARY FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS,
ENDING SEPTEMBER 25TH, 1866 :
Number of new schools organized,. 47
Number persons gathered into the
New Schools 2*231
Number other schools addressed and
aided 224
Amount in books and papers dis
tributed $2205,84
Amount in books and papers given
away 334,61
Number of families visited. 1608
Number of Bibles and Testaments
distributed ! 202
Number amnions and addresses de
livered 406
Number miles travelled in the Co 5106
Whole number of echoole in the Co.
in 1866 192
Whole number of persons in all the
schools 10831
Number of schools continued thro'
the winter of 1863-1 21
Number of schools continued thro'
the winter of 1864 "• 34
Number of schools continued thro'
the winter of 1865-6 39
Number townships, more than hall,
yet without any Winter 8. 8. V .. 18
Duriug the past year, 1866, there
have been received from the Sunday
Schools, in full communion, into the
churches of the county, eight hun
dred and twenty person•?.
Of communities which two years
ago were without either preaching or
Sabbath Schools, jif'een are now
known to enjoy both these means of
grace.
In several of these places, church
cditiees are either contemplated or in
process of ,-reetiou.
The number of Schools continued
all the year round has nearly doubled.
There are more than four thousand
children and youth in the county yet
to be gathered" into the Sabbath
School
CHRISTIAN FRIKNI'S— We have to
record the singular fact that during
the winter, while < ur secular schools
have been in successful operation,
three in every four of our Sabbath
Schools have been suspended. But
the winter is past—" it is high time
to awake out of sleep.' 7 Our field is
" white already t > harvest." Thou
sands of precious youth around us
stand waiting to be gathered iu.
The Master says, " Go work to-day
in my vineyard. Let us arise and
go, expecting by prayer and effort to
win these youthful ones to follow
Jesus—the Good Shepherd.
During the present season, the
Missionary will labor iu the Xorth-
East part of the county. Visiting
other sections as he may have oppor
tunity.
A Ron. OF HONOR will bo kept for
the Schools which shall learu and re
cite together the Ten Commandments
before the first of September next.
All the schools in one township are
already enrolled. Every school, which
is now or shall be entitled to a place
on this roll, should be immediately
reported to me by the Superintendent.
The names of all the schools that'
shall answer to this " roll cail," will
be read at the Annual Meeting of the
County Sunday School Association in
September, and be reported in the
County Papers It is iu the power
of every Superintendent to secure
this honorable record for his Bchool.
We cau furnish commandment
cards, ol large size, at one dollar per
hundred. " Helpful Hints,'' for Sun
day School Teachers, at ten cents a
copy, and Hymns and Tunes for Sun
day Schools, just published, at the
same price.
All will bear iu uiiud that our work
if* a-* strictly union and uuseotariau
as it it* possible to make it.
A Depository, well supplied with
the beet of books for SaocUy School
NUMBER 45.
1867—GBKKTINI
use, is opened in the Poet Office
Building, Towanda. I verily believe
it will be for the advantage of our
schools to give this Home Institution
a trial
At the xanM' place, Bible* mid Tea
taments if all kinds can be pmcuit-d
on precisely the same terms as a' the
Bible House in Hew Yuri.
Fellow-Laborers ! " Let us put on
the armor of light." " The night is
far spent, the day is at band." 1 Col
lect your Sunday School forces and
organize at once. Begin with prayer
and thus go forward in the name >t
the Great Captain, and may God help
you to make the regular return f
the Sabbath Day as healthful to your
neighborhood as " the showers which
soften, fertilize and beautify tl.'
earth, bringing with them the influ
ence of Heaven."
Letters in reference to our work
will receive prompt attention from
Yours, ever cordially,
R. CRITTENDEN,
a. 8. Missionary, Towanda, IV
THE BEASOH OF LEHT
Among the many episodes in the
life of our Saviour to which Chris
tians in all parts of the world look
with awe and veneration, there is
none which receive a more general,
substantial remembrance than the
forty days in the wilderness. The
ejuimemoration of the sacrifice in be
half of mankind, was instituted, ac
cording to most of the fathers of the
fourth and fifth centuries,by the Apos
ties, although mauy Protesaut wri
ters claim that it was not inaugura
ted until the second or third century
of the Christian era. However that
may be, it is certain that as early as
the beginning ol the second century
the observance of the Lenten fast
was made obligatory. The origion
of the word lent is uncertain ; some
writers claiming its derivation from
lencten a Saxon word meaning length
en ; and others again, from the Ger
man lenten, to thaw, because the sea
son in which it occurs in spring, or
the time when the days lengthen.--
The general mode of observance in
the Catholic Church, is the same
throughout the world, but there are
various modifications of the rules pre
scribed in different countries The
season commences with the festival
of Ash Weduesday,called by the fath
ers of the church capat jojun/iu,begin
ning of the fast. Iu former times,and
in many of the Catholic countries at
the present time the custom of sprink
ling the head and garments with ash
es was observed as a Bymbol of grief
for the tributations endured by our
Saviour,as well as a method denoting
penance for their transgressions du
ring the preceding year. From this
practice iB derived the name "Ash
Wednesday," and although the CMS
torn of sprinkling the garments with
ashes has fallen into disuse, it is to a
certain extent commemorated in the
practice of making the sign of the
cross with ashes on the forehead
EVILS OF GOSSIP—I have known *
country society which withered away
all to nothing under the dry rot >'t
gossip only. Friendships, once
firm as grauite, dissolved to jelly
and then run away to water, only be
cause of this ; love, that promised
future -s enduring as heaven and ab
atable as truth, evaporated into •:
morning mist that turned to a day V
long tears only because of this : ;
father and a son were set foot to foe i
with the fiery breath of anger that
would never coo! again between them
only because of this ; and a husband
and his young wife, each straining at
the hated leash which in the begit
ning had been the golden bondage ot
a God-blessed love, sat mournfully by
the side of the grave where all their
love and all their joy lay buried, and
only because of this. I have seen
faith transformed to mean doubt
hope give place to grim despair, ami
charity take on itself the features t I
black malevolence, all because of the
spell of words of s :andal and magn
mutterings of gossip Great crime*
work great wrong, and the deep
tragedies of human life spring from
the larger passions ; but wot'ul and
most mournful are the uncatalogiu -1
tragedies that issue from gossip and
detraction ; most mournful the ship
wreck often made of noble natures
and lovely lives by the bitter winds
and dead salt water of slander. .*<
easy to say, yet so hard to disprove
throwing on the inuocent all the bur
den and the strain of demonstrating
their innoceuce, and punishing them
as guilty. If unable to pluck nut du
stings they never see, and to sileno
words they never hear—gossip an.*,
slander are the deadliest and crmbs'
weapons man has ever forged for his
brother's hurt.
THERE is a lady iu New York s
ignorant of all domestic work that FV ca :
not even knir her brows,
"LOVE iu a cottage" is all very we; ,
when yon own the cottage, and have money
coming to keep it warm.
THE easiest and the best way to
expand the chest, is to have a good large
heart in it. It save* the cost of gymnas
tics.
FAME is not greatness,but the shad
ow which follows greatness. Most people
prefer the shadow to the substance.
THE purest joy that we can expert
ence in one that we love, is to see that per
■on a source of happiness to others.
AN old lady,on being asked to sub
scribe to a newspaper, declined, on the
ground that when she wanted news she
manufactured it.
MR. John Jack, a Kentucky editor,
' says that one day hie gni slapped him in
| the face, averring, byway of apology, that
I she was fond of slapjacks.
A young lady writing in defence - I
tilters, says :
As to the present ridiculous short coats, i
can only say that they present to a person
at all belligerent a temptation scarcely to
be overlooked.
A FATHER out \\ est kicked h'
daughter's lover into the street, and the lot -
or revenged himself by causing a stick of
wood filled with gunpowder to he placed in
the tld gentleman's stove effect to he im
agined.
A rich Philadelphia contractor, in
a severe fit of gout, told hie physician lit.
suffered the pains of the damned. The
doctor coolly answered, "What, already?''
"IK it wasn't for hope the bean
would break," as the old woman Rai.l when
she buried her seventh husband, and look
(d anxiously f n* AT> fl the funeral crowd for