I=2IEI ottrt+ " 7, ltT'one of the Industrial schools in the city of New-YoNk, Tern two little, girls; who had always been confined to wretched homes in filthy streets, au„d had never ma finer." Little, weary,)'restless feet, Vattering through the dusty street, Warid'ering 'daily up and down Thrtiligh,the - whle and desert town, All the long, slow dropping hours Never once have trod on flowers. Never daisy in the grass Smiles to greet you as you pass! Little fingers blue`and cold, Peeping from yon mantle old! What! flitter picked a buttercuP, 'Nor held a dewy rosebud ail • „,..,I!.l2F.plucW wild floyrers o lmhl Sulam& air, To - twine amid the eirling hair ;That ifstagrOwith'tarigled, careless grace,- Aroundtthat and elfin face! 'l3lg too' large, tad ileep,Und wild, For a happy, careless Qft ) y l B6ri lideivith tears Ate Wet, Strange, sad eights your gaze have•inet, Want', and woe, and pain, - and ein, toiouifandliar Annul But ne'er yeein grovia or bower, Dawned on yout sight ,a little flower! l'Atle'beart. so wild and shy, Trembling, beating fast anti high, Thou-too, 'doubtless, bast 'a part— ;• iiieilakirilddiower thatlitou art In the tender Gard'ner's care :Wirose'sweek buds the'ohildien are -Vh)t' ilia sweetness garners up, Intilie child s heart`and lily's cup. , 14 "^" ••••' • 2 * -- — Traveller , t i tray g °Aottcts. LET' ERS , ON THE- MINISTRY OF THE GOS PEL. BY Trancis Wayland. 16m0., pp. 210. Bostoni. Gould j' Lincoln. For sale by R. S. .Davia, Wood'street, Pittsburgh. Dr. Wayland 4s extensively known as a preacher, an edtzoitor, and. an author. His works on Moral Science and . Political Economy have beensintroduced as text-books into many of 47 our soltOOls - and colleges, and.his 'published ser- Nada 'hive been received with -general fairer. The eiolturtelbefore us abounds in important practical suggestions on the Gospel .inirtistry. ; We do not Concur in every opinion advanced in the book, but we regard it in , the main as exceed ingly valuable, and as worthy especially of the attention of young ministers and of candidates for-the ministry. i'dATEITHISM FOE SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES ; or.,.A.taxrosrrion or THE LORD'S PRAYER, THE CREED, AND THE TEN,COMMAND ; T. 112; -Fifty-two Lessons— • 'By Philip • Schaff, D.D. 18mo., pp. 82. Boston: Henry Hoye. For sale by R. S. Davis, Pittsburgh. :This little Catechism was originally published _ itrithimaspeciaLUse of the German Reformed I ChnreX,lir, this country. The ;=present edition runprepared at the request of some of the an tliorts friends in New-England, who wished to Iftiie it introduced into The Sabbath SchoolewiLlt whichAey were cmretud‘,: aud'we anntold in I the ðic th'at if differS'ficit the original work intheoMission of the notes and explanations, *Win the omission or modification also of a few quistions about which there is a difference of t opinion among evangelical• denominations. We are pleased, for the most part, with the Cate- I : Abism, 'both as regards arrangement and con dints, though we would by no means have it take the. aplace ofour own invaluable Shorter Cate ehisuna work which should be studied in every Presfiyterian Sabbath School, tla well as in every Presbyterian family. LIEUTENANT MESSINGER' By Nary A. Den nison, Author of "Opposite the JOB," &c. 47p! '11 4 1” tliOsion : Hreti-y- Roo. 'For see in Pittsburgh by R. S. Davis., In the iolume before, us, we have described the'hiStory of a college student 'who, on the breakingrout of the present war, • laid - aside his Unki'entl' enlisted under the flag , eflis country. He is introduCed to us as scrupulously moral and theoretically religious, but as destitute of the:.saiing grace of theVospel. Through the bffinencebf "a Christian Sister, he is induced to seek a personal interest in Christ as his Saviour. treimicame an ardent disCipte, •and while faith -1(.41V - serving his "ebtltitry, he ic the time kOners his Divine Master by zealously laboring to Piomote the spiritual welfare of those around is fatally ; votutded on the field. of bat tle; r aiidNftei lingirine-seme tincriOtlib hoSpi. fikle'dies In the triumphs 'of the Gospel.' The told in.s, natural and pleasing manner, and ie well, calculated to impress the'Minds of youth ,witif a4nee of the incalculable importance of true iefliop. ALLCE FIELD ; or, THIL.WO/48-„Or A YONG LIPB. 18mo. , pp. &1. Boston: Henry Hoyt. o — r T — sale 41. 8. Davie, - Pittilittiih. Tit? 8 . 1441tE1f VODD PIECE ; OTEMIL 1 , 31 r; Gertrude' Graham.' lBmo., pp , 84[1ifatift„publishet,,,„.„, ' ' ' LITIVAIkoAnTE BLOSSOM.- By. a, E. K. llithoi of " Grace Sale," etc. 7.8m0., pp. 101 time publiaker.. These . little , volumes are gotten up in an at :0101144 'ciarle;and'they contain much that wil ilire4tertabizgandinetrnotive Kalb:hen. For the Rteebyterinn Banner. 4 : The:Presbytery of _Bloomington , lktet. „at Clinton; 111 . , April, 28th, 1868. liresent, sixteen ministers and sixteen Rut. ing.Elders. Opdned witka sermon by the Mpiterator, Rev. E. S. High, from Ps. ...LReell: R. Price-Was ehosen-Moderator / tbialV4: 3. * 0: Hailla r Teihrforlri l Clt;ilr. Commissioners to, the . Gen. Assembly : Rev. J. %110.Unnopa,Elder, Wst. Munro, •priztolpittir. Porter, and Elder Riyburn, arteruates. The church of Wapella was dissolved. The plrEitdil 4 l.elitiSli betAgir'''Rev„ S. H. `ffayit&tlf - church, was dis solvaViird Bather Siefinion-hailiOrse qpptcld a,call, from Union Grove church, a tbmtuattee - was appointed, to install" pastor of that church on the 26th of June next r i....o, I.s 4.4,7 , • Presbytery adjesilled o meet at On3rga on Tuesday, Sept. 22d, at'`7'P. R.> CoNotrat, S.. C. For the Presb yterian ßanner. The'Ptisiltery COO i.iiii.w.l' Met in Muscatine, April 28th; aid was opeueeivith a sermon -by Rev. Robert Ca- . o' %air, Carothers was-ohesen- Modeia tir”sefid ,Rev. §. Mee. Anderson, ' Tempo nary Clerk; • - S. Mee. Anderson snd J. 4). klinr l-g.ws were appoint‘d as the Presbyterial ,allnunittee on Missions: -tr*. . 40 Riztv h p v ,"l.; Osmaa4t, was ~ received front &LJiiiesbytery of Sobuyler,rand!aosomtnik. tee,pppoiptell .ttfi#stall 1111 V over the loNia City ehuroh, on Thursday, May 7. . a /=:=;1::;:l Presbytery resolved to hold an adjourn ed meeting at Summit, on Tuesday, June 16th, when Mr. 11. A. Barclay is to be or dained and installed as pastor of the church es of Summit and Long Grove. Messrs. Schmidt, Anderson, Cliebenstoin rind Skiles, were appointed a committee. to organize. a German church in Blue Grass, if the way be dear. Charles B. Ogilsie, a Member of the Mnscatine church, was taken under the care of Presbytery as a candidate for the • Gospel ministry. Rev. A. S. 'Marshall, and elder J. IL Morrow, irineipals; and Rev. S. 4,10 C. Anderson, and• elder John Ferguson, alter nates, were elected delegates to the General Assembly. The following supplies were 'appointed: Princeton—Dodder, to administer Sacra ment, 3d Sabbath in May. Walcott:--An derson, to administer Sacrament, 2d Sab bath'ebute. Bine - Grass—Anderion,L, one Pabbath at, disereticm. Marion--Dodder, sth';Sabbath in May; Mcßride, lst Sab bath in June.. :The Fall meeting .of Presbytery ,will be in lowa City, the Tuesday .before • E. L. BELDzi 8 C . Fox the'Preabyterian Banner. The. Presbytery of !Aster . Aiet in Wooster on Tueiday, April 21,St ; and was opened with _.a sermon by the Ret. M. W: , Brown, from Ps. lxx-xvii 3. • Rev. Thomas Beer, was .elected Modera tor, and. Rev. T. H. Bat y Clerk. Rev, John E.- Carson, and. elder John Strine, were elected as Commissioners to the General Assembly Vir ' tue and,elder Robert Shaver, alternates Messrs. J: Myth; - and :J. A. ale& berger, students , of, the Western Theologi cal Seminary were licensed to preach the Gospel. Mr. Myers,was recommended to the,Board of Foreign Missions, as possess ' in& tirie character and qualifications for the field of Foreign Miskorts. Mr. - Semple was appointed to supply the I churches of Canal Fulton and Marshalls p vine, on the morning arid afternoon of the I Fourth Sabbath; of May. , ' .Mr. Barr, to preseb at. Chippewa on, thei-ViA,Sabbath i of :May..' Mr. - Virtue', at' Vitale' on the Third Sabbath- , of June. - Mr. Carson, at Greene in.. July, at.discretion. After alarinonioits and interesting meet ing, Presbytery' adjourned to meet in Con gress, on .the first - Tuesday:of •September. - - J, -E..Q Stated Clerk. "There now I 'it rains right down; and we can't go," Said Agnes; and as she spoke, she laid her folded hends upon her mother's lip'and looked iMplorifigly up . for sympa thy, trying hard the while to suppress her But she bad hardly spoken when Other voices were heard, and her two older sisters came bounding into the room. "It rains fast, mother, only see the big drops on-the -window! Su, and I thought as we could not go, perhaps you'd tell us a story." - " Yes, mother; do 'tell us a - real scare story, something to make us forget that it's rainineguns, and that we can't go a-May ing. If you will, mother," said Susan, sit here by Ago b ie and see how much tatting I can make. It was real kind in Rosy Woods to show me how• to make this pretty clover leaf; it is the very Prettiest kind Of tatting. I'm ready now for the - atom mother." " / don't want a scare-story," said Agnes, with a sob. "I'd rather hear about some real good little girls." I " Then, Aggie, you'll have to hear about 1 their dying; for you know all the very good I ones dieyoungrsaidq3arrie,- .7 - 7. 3 : /., " 0; neier *thind'wliat WS:about," Said Susan, we'll leave that to mother, and per haps she 'll`'havb ;one:.iti. terinind that's part enod, part bad-, and part scare; then we may all be pleased.. Mother smiled as though she'd begin now, if we would only leave off our chattering. Will you, - moth er 7" • - ' . • " Yes, my daughter; hut first, I have a word to say about'the rain; this beautiful Shower, to me, looks like drops of water de scending. You say it rains guns`►; Do n 4 you think you speak too extravagantly ?"% ":Yes, mother, I know; you said the other day that I dealt too- freely with hy perboles.' try to rernember. This' was a'good'trait in Susan's charac ter; that when her mother reproved her, she never grew sullen or tiaid that 'otker girls said and- did so, as though it excused any one for doing wrong because another person erred: Their motiler.;beegan her story by paying.: " One May-day ,morning. the .131111 rose clear and cloudless, and the -sky looked beautifully bhie.; Gay birds were viarbling melodiously, ,filling-the air with rich music. On :the 'previous Blip, Billings