part \Waidensita Hymn. The 'people -of wild mountainous countries Cherish a strong attachment to their native hills. The Waldenses, when driven from their homes hyperseestion, sighed and longed for the hour •of their return. Below we give one of their beautiful hymns: VHANICk Bs TO GOD FOR THE IIOUNTAINS For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God; Thou host made thy children mighty, By the touch of the mountain sod- - ; Thou bast fix'd our ark of refuge, Where the spoilers' feet ne'er trod ; For the strength of the bills wetless thee, Our God, our fathers' God. We are watehens of a beacon, • Whose.light must Dever die; We're, guardians Of an altar, - 'Midst the silence of the sky; The rookslield founts of courage, Struck forticas by thy rod ; ..• For the strength of hills we bless thee, Our!aod; our fathers' God, For the dark resounding caverns, Where thy still B=lll vooe is heard, For the strong pines of the forest, That‘by thy strength are aired; For the storm, on whose free pinions Thy spirit walks abroadl For the strength - of the hills'we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God- The royal eagle darteth On his'iparry front the heights; And theitag,that knows nconaster, &eks . there his wild delights : ; ; But we, foi thy communion, Erave.sought the mountain sod; • For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers' God. The banner of the chieftain Far, far below us waves; For the war-horse of the spearsman Cannot reach our lofty caves; The dark clouds wrip the threshold Of Freedom's last abode; For the strength'of the hills we bless thee, Our 'God, our fathers' God. For the shadow of thy presence, 'Round our camp of rock outspread.; For the stern defiles of battle 'Bearing record of our dead; For the snows, and for the torrents, For thefree heart's burrial sod; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our. God, our fathers' God. Itt tong, Boys, You are 'Watched. Do you •believe this, boys? It is true, true that you are watched often,•very often when you think not of it. Perhaps I can best illustrate this by giving you a story re lated by a traveller_ in one of the Southern States. Among the Irish emigrants who came to our country more than twenty years ago, was a lad notthea ottt of his teens. He was a stranger in strange land, without friends or helper. In his search for em ployment he came to the banks of one of the rivers which 'flow into the Gulf of Mex ico. Horo he obtained a situation as deck hand on board of a steamboat: It was hard work and hard fare. At all hours of the day and night he was expected to stand ready to land and receive freight, take in wood, and feed the 'furnaces. He did his work faithfully, proving himself sober, ac tive, and intelligent. He had been in the boat about a week, when one dark night a fire was seen, and a cry 'heard on the banks of the river. The fire was a signal for the boat to stop.. The mate, who was then in charge, would not land, but sent onr young Irishman on shore in a small boat. He found a planter and two or three ncgroes standing by the signal fire. The planter handed him a package, saying, " Here is thirty-four thOusand dol lars. Give it to the captain or clerk, and ask him ,to deposit it for me in the Planter's Bank as soon as he gets in. Tell him not to forget, it, as it is to pay a note which falls due day after to-morrow." ~ The young man put the money in 'his bosom, aid pushed off for the boat. In the darkness'he might have gone in another di rection, and with the money in his posses sion, a - great fortune for a poor immigrant, disappeared, never more to be seen in these parts. Does ill-gotten wealth ever prove a real blessing? This young man probably thought not. At all events he had no in tention of trying it. On his reaching the deck, the mate de manded of him what was wanted. The lad replied simply that it was a message for the captain, and was roughly ordered to go into the cabin and deliver it. Upon entering the cabin he saw the cap tain surrounded by a jolly group of passen gers, and very busy with cards and punch. Under these circumstances he wisely con cluded that the money would for that night be safest in his own keeping.:: He retired from *the cabin unobserved, and stowed the, package of notes in the bottom of his clothes-bag. In the morning when the cap tain was sober, he again visited the cabin, and delivered the money and message, when sonuithing like the following conversation occurred : " What is all this ? Where did you get this money ?" . . " I went ashore in the yawl for it last night, sir." " And why did yon not bring it to the office at once F" 4 i I did, sir; but you and the clerk were both very busy." This answer drew forth a hearty laugh from some of the passengers who had been engaged in the same business. " Young man," said the captain, "how long have you been on this boat ?" " A week, sir." "And how much money have you?" "Five dollars, sir." Very well. Go to your work." In three weeks from that time the young immigrint became second-mate; -in a year lirst mate,,and.not long aftcr, captain. In a few*Yearille had a wife and'ohildren, and owned a. plantation and two or three steam boats. Now, was 'it only ti happy fortune, or as some would say; a lucky chance, which in one short year raised this young twin. fro the situation of a deck-band to that of first-. mate ? Perhaps you will say that a favor able oireumstanoe introduced him to the no tics of the captain. That is trite, hit there was the faithfulness, the honesty, the intel ligence, 'the tact, to profit by these favora ble cirorstances. , He did only his duty, in the simplicity and honesty of his heart, probably without hope, of reward, or even of notice. But he was watched. - -His captain• observed hie eolidiletjr:and when, three weeks afterwards, the place of second-mate was vacant, and he wanted an industrious and reliable young man to fill it, he offered the situation to this yo. og immigrant. This is an'event, not unlike what often Occurs. A boy is 'industrious, patient, and persevering. That boy is watched. After a time some merchant or mechanic is in want of a boy of that description, _and he. thinks he - knows whereto find him. " I .have watched thatboy," says he to himself, ." and I am confident that he is just what I want!' The boy gets the offer of this situ ntion, and gladly and thankfully accepts of ic. The lazy drone stands by, and..says, " what a lucky fellow that boy is: What is the reason no, one wants me?" He too ha's been watched. That is the reason no on.e wants him. Again, a boy is careful, faithful, and ho,p est. Ile too is watched. By and by sole one wants a boy whoni he can trust, and he says, I have taken note of that boy, and have observed that. he-is uniformly faithful in all the little things committed to his care. He, is diligent, careful, and honest, I will secure his services and will do well by him." . ' The boy who lives next door, is of a very different description. He is careless, and unfaithful, if not positively. dishonest. He looks on.and wonders. "That is just such a situation as I have been trying a long time to find," he says; " what a lucky fel low that boy is. Something is always turn ing up for him." Does this boy reason correctly about 'his neighbor's good fortune?' -Is-'something always-turning up for him, nr does . he turn it up by his diligence, faithfulness, and honesty? Which is -it, boys? Be sure that industry, faithfulness, and honeity will sooner or later find"their re ward. The reward may seem slow in com-' ing, but wait for it, work and wait. When you become met you willlnd that an' hon: est, 'diligent, and reliable man is always wanted to fill some useful and respectable place in . society. Remember, dear young friends, that you are watched by those around by those who may have it in their power to help you onward and upward. Above all, remember that you are watched •by the Eye which never slumbers nor sleeps, by Him who will -reward each one according to his work . .— Evangelist. 1.1113 - - Christian Workt. i(1 1 -nt too.- Little." These words reached the ears of Mrs. Wilson as she came into the parlor one day.,She found-.,her three children seated on:te sofa—Anna, the eldest, 'trying "to amuse her younger brother and sister. She . had been telling them a story - in her on wise way, of some good little girl who.was agreat :help . to her .mother and was showing the example of this excellent child for the, benefit-of Ella,, when their mother came in. • Too little for Oat ; lar asked Mrs; Wilson. • , " I was telling her," said .A.nua l ". the story of. Katie Lee, and when I said she must be good, Arid do as Katie Lee did, she told me she was too little." " Little .girls of ~four years, are rather small," said .Mrs. Wilson, "but my Ella is n't too little to be good, thope." "But Katie was older . than 1, I'm sure," said Ella; " I can't do such things as she can." "What things . ?" asked'mamma. " Why, bring in the milk pitcher; I'm afraid 'd spill the milk, and then Susan would say : Oh, you are a plague " Mrs. Wilson smiled, for little Ella was called " a plague " very often. "If:you couldn't bring the milk pitcher, darling, ybu could be useful in other ways," she said. " 0 no, I ean't—i'm too little," persisted Mrs. Wilson sat down and took the child upon her lap. ' "Now listen to me; you can pick up My ball when it rolls on the carpet, and get papa's slippers, and fetch me a book, or my work-basket, can't you ?" " Yes, 1 can do those," said Ella. " Well, then, arc you too small to be useful ?" " Why is that being useful? - I thought it meant real great things," said Ella, open ing her eyes in astonishment. "It means that older girls are to do great things and little girls are to do little things," said, her., mother. " You are a little girl, now, and so your heavenly Father only wishes you to do little things, but then my darling must try to do them willingly and pleasantly. You. shoulTi al ways be ready to do what' mamma asks at once, and not say, 4 I'm tired,' • or ' I don't want to,' or I can't,' because though you are ony four years old, you are not too little to be sometimes useful.--111erry's .Magazine. ' "1 was My Mather's.'.l A company poor children who had be j en gathered out of the city, were preparing for their departure- to new and distant homes in the West. Just before , the time for the starting of the oars, one of the boys was noticed , aside from the others, and apparently very busy with. a cast-off gar ment. The superintendent stepped up to him, 'and" found he was cutting a small piece out, of the patched lining. It,proved to be his, old jacket, whieh r having been replaced by a new one, had been'titrown away. There was no time to be lost " Come, Jehn, come," said the superintendent; "what are you going to do with that old piece of calico ?' "Please, sir," said John "I am cutting it out to take with me. mother put the lining into this old jacket for me. This was a piece of her dress, and it is ail that 1 shall have to remember h,er . by !" And as the poor boy thought of that dear mother's love, and of the sad death-bed scene in the old garret where she died, he covered his face with his - hands and sobbed as if his heart would break. But, the train was about leaving,' and John thrust the little piece of calico into his bosom, "to remember his mother by," hurried into a ear, and was soon far away frem the place where he had seen so much Borrow. • Many an eye, has moistened as the story of this .orphaik ..boy has been told; and many a heart has prayed that the. God of the fatherless and motherless would•be his friend. He loved his mother, and we can not-but believe that he • obeyed her, and was a faithful-child. istellantous. The Irishman and his Three Children. On board one of the lake steamers, bound for the far West, was an Irish fain 4—husband, wife, and three children. They were evidently in very destitute eir-. cumstances; but the exceeding beauty of the Andrea, two girls and a toy, was the. PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 9 1864. admiration of their fellow-passengers. 'A lady who had no children of her own, was desirous of adopting are of the little •tray ellers,-and:made application to the father, through a friend, who gives the •following touching, and, as we' suppose, truthful ac count of, the negotiation: "1 prooeeded," he says, " immediately on my delicate diplomacy.. Finding my friend on deck, I thus opened the affair— His answer was very oharadieristic. " You are very poor 7" - " 'Poor, sir V said he, ' ay, if there's a poorer man than me troUblin" the - world, God pity both ov us, for we'd be about ' Then how do you, manage to_stipport your children?' " 'ls it support them,sirl Why I don't support them any way they get supported some way or other. It 'll Ire time- enough for me to complain when they don't.' " ' Would -it be a relief to you to part with one' of them'?' It - was_ too suddenl; 'he turned sharply "' A what, sir . 2' 'le cried; a relief to part from ray child. Vould.it be a relief to have the hands- chopped from the body, .or the heart torn out of my breast? A relief,. indeed! What do you 'mean ?' "' You don't understand me,' I replied. ' If now, it were in one's-power to, provide comfortably for one of your children, would: you stand in the way of its interests ?' • " 'l'o, sir,' said he, "I would willingly cut . the 'sunshine away, front myself, that' they might get all the 'Warm of it ;.but.tell us what yonare Oriving, at?. "I then told hilt that a lady , had taken a fumy to have one .of his Children, and, ; if he would consent to it, it.should_ be eau; eated, and finally settled comfortably in. "This threw him Into a-fit of specula-. tion. He Scratched his head,and looked the very picture. of belilderment. The struggle. between a. 'father's love and 'the `child's interest was evident and touching. At length he said`: " I Oh; would n't it be a great thing for the baby ! But r must go and talk ,with Mary—that's the mother of 'ern ;, and, it wouldn't be • right to be givin'..away children before, her face and> her to know nothing at all about 1 . 1 'Away with you, then," said I, 'and bring me, an answer back:as Scion. as pos sible, ; "In about, half an hour he returned, leading two of his children. His eyes were red and swollen, and his faCe pale from excitement and agitationf 44 Well,' I inquired, what success ?' " Indade, it. was a hard struggle, sir,' said he. But I've been talking to !Mary, an' she says, as it's for the child's good; maybe the Heavens above will give us strength to bear it.‘ " Very well, ivy' which of them is it to be ?' • " cFaix, and I don't know, sir,' and he ran his eye dubiously over both. 4 Here's little. Norah—she's the oldest, an' won't need ,her mother so much; but then—oh, tear an' Sigers, it's myself that can't - tell which I'd rather part with least . ; so take the first one that comes wid a blessing. There t sir,' and he handed' . over little Norali. Turning back, snatched her up in hi's arms, and gave her one long, hearty father's-kiss, saying throUgh his tears : " 4 May God be good to him that's good to you' . " Then, taking his other child by, the hand, he walked away, leaving .1 - orab. with me. "I took her down to the cabin, and we thought the matter settled. It•must' be confessed, to my great indignation, how= ever, in about an hour's time I saw my friend Pat at the window. As soon as he caught my eye, he began making signs for me to come out. ' I did 66; and found that he had the other child in his arms. 44 g - What's .the matter, new VI asked. " Well, sir,' said he, ' I ask your par don for troubling you about so fool ish a thing as a child or two, but we're thinkin' that maybe it'd make no differ—you see, sir, I've been talking to Mary, an' she says she can't part with *Norah, beealise. the creature las. a look ov me; but here's little Biddy, she's purtyer far, an' av you plase,.sir, will you swap,?'. " Certainly, whenever you like,' said I. "So lie snatched-, up little Norab, as though it was some recovered treagure, and darted away with her, leaving little Biddy, Who remained with us all night : but lc the moment we entered the cabin in the morning,:there was Pat making his toys- Aerious signs again at the window, and this time he had the- youngest, a baby, -in arms. - What's wrong•now r I inquired. " Ay,sir, an' its meself that's almost ashamed to tell ye. - Ye see; I've been talking to Mary, an' she didn't like to part with Norah, because she has a look ov me, an' I can't part with Biddy, because she's the model of her mother ' but there's little Paulein, sir. There's a lump - of a Chris tian for you, two years old, and not a day more ; _he'll never be -anytrouble to any one'; for av-he takes after his mother, he'll haire the brightest 'eye, an' av he takes after his father, he'll have a fine broad pair of shoulders to push his way Jhrough the, world. you swaP again, sir " With all my heart,' said , l; ' it's all the same to me ;' and little Pauleen yras left with me. "Ha, ha,' said I to myself; as I looked into his big, laughing 'eyes,, 80 . the affair is settred at last.' .• , " But it was n't; for ten minutes had scarcely elapsed, when - Pat rushed into the cabin without form s• or ceremony, and snatched up the baby, and said: - - ‘i It's no use; I've beeu 'talking to Mary, arid we, can't do it. Look at him, sir he ?s the youngest an' the best'of the batch., You wouldn't keep him from 'us. You see, sir, Nora,. has a"look o 6 =me, an! Biddy has a look of Mary; but little Pau-, dean has the mother's eye, an' my nose, an' a little of both ofuz'all over. No, sir; we can bear hard fortune, starvation,' and misery, but we can't bear, to,.part with our children, unless it be.the will, of Heaven.-to take them from rm' , . What assertion -will make one believe thatin one second of 'time one beat ofibe pendninm of a clock, a'ray of lightfra.veli over 152 ; 000 Miles, 'and" would; therefore, perform the tour of the world in about the same time tbat it requires to wink`with our eyelids, and in luta less' thari 4 swift 'run*:- . ner' ocippies in taking a -single , stride? What mortal 'ean.be made" to believe, with out demonstration, that the sun is almoita million times larger than the earth ?—and that although so remote from rts,:a cannon ball, shot directly toward it, and maintain big its full speed, would be.twenty years in reaching it, yet it affects the earth by its attraction in an appreeishle instant of time Who, would not ask; for demonstration, whentold ihat. aznat'swhag, in its, ordi,nary =flight butt any hundred times ill a t NC Wonders of the Universe. • .ornlT or that there exist animated and reg ularly organized beingS, many thousands of' whose bodies laid together - would not extend an' inch.? But -what are these to the aston ishing truths which modern optical inqui ries have disclosed, which teach that every point of a medium •through which a ray of lightpasses is affected with a succession of periodical .movements, regularly 'recurring at equal intervals, no.less than five hundred millions. of millions of times in a single second I That. it is by such movements communicated to the nerves of the eye, that we see; nay, more, that it is the difference in the frequence of their recurrence which affects us with•the.sense of the diversity of color? That, for instance, in acquiring the sensation of redness, our eyes are affected' four hundred• and eighty-two mil lions of millions of times—of yellowness, five hundred and forty-two millions of mil lions of times—and of Violet, seven hun dred and seven millions of'millions of times per second.?. `f Do not such things_ sound more like the ravings en:lat:linen than the sober cortellision'e of people in their waking senses ? They are, nevertheless, :conclu sions to which any ~one• may certainly ar rive, 'who will only be at the trouble of ex anunmg• the, nhain of reasoning by whit they have been obtained.' • Marriages of Consanguinity. M. Bondin, so well knoWn for his re searches in medical statistical questions, thus mincludes an interesting inquiry con cerning the ‘ effeetsto,f 'marriages of consan , . guinity : - I.The opinions hitherto deliv ered whether for`or against the hurtfainess of,,these marriages, have for the most part, net Veen based upon conefusive proofs., 2. It is the statistical method that can alone supply a scientific solution of the problem. 3. It results' froni my . own researches that. consanguineous, marriages are contracted in France at the rate ,of .2 per cent.; and that deaf-mutes • are the issue of consanguineous• marriages in the proportion of 28 per cent. at the„Paris Imperial Institution, 25 per cent*: at Lyons, and 30 percent. at Bor deaux. 4. Marriages between nephews and aunts are contracted in France in the proportion of 0.014 , per cent. (fourteen thousandths per cent), while deaf-mutes are;the results, of. such marriages in .the prciportion of 2.04 per cent. In other words, deaft:mutes resulting from _such mar riages are 145 more numerous Olin they should be: Marriages between uncles and nieces are dontracted in the proportion of 0.04 per _cent. Veur hundredths), and the deaf -unite* resulting from such mar riages reach 1.61 per eent.ri. e., the dan ger of engendering deaf-inutesis 40 times greater in this kink - of alliance than;-it is• in ordinary unions. 6. Marriages between cousin-gertnans are: contracted in the pro portion of; 0.77 per cent., and deaf-mutes. are produced in the proportion . of =1847 per cent., i e., 24 tiineunore frequent than they should be. 7. The, proportion of, deaf-mutes proceeding from consanguineous origin would be still greater =if we, could take; nto account those which proceed in directly ,from consanguineous marriages." -8. While at Berlin the proportion of deaf: mutes is-but in 10,000 among the Chris tians, it is 27 in 10,000. among the Jews. nearly ;the whole of the cases the deaf-rwutes ' issuing from consanguineous marriages have parents who are perfectly healthy And exempt from hereditary affec tions. - 10. When male -.and - female deaf mutes intermarry, not beitg consanguineous, the children they produce, with rare ex ceptions, are exempt from dumbness and deafneas. 11. In the fade of such facts as diode, the hypothesis of a morbid heredi tariness employed for the explanation of the frequencydf deaf-dumbness among in.- flints the results of consanguineous mar riages, is radically false. 12. The hypoth esis of thepretended harmlessness of con sangumenus marriages is contiadicted by the most. evident and well-verified facts, and can only be excused by the difficulty, or rather the impossibility,• of giving - a physiological explanation of the production of infirm children by parents who are phy sically irreproachable. M. Boudie, in proof•of the praetical impertance of this' kind of inquiries, states - that in 1831 more than 16,000 men have been exempt& in Ftarme from military service on account of deafdUmbness, dumbnees, or deafness.— Recuil 'de -them. de Med. difilitaire and Medical Pimes. • .14..iii,..- - .0-441, - 7.. 1 ki i .:, Mutton for Food. In Dr. Randall's valuable work on " Sheep - Husbandry," which we noticed some weeks ago, are some practical; hints which lip know will prove of interest to Our readers. In chapter ix. he says : Persons desirous of engaging in• sheep husbandry are frequently at a loss to decide -what breed of sheep is best adapted to their particular wants - and - ciratteatances. The first and leading point to 'determine is Wheth er it would be most profitable to make mutton the prime consideration, and wool the ac-• eessory—or wool the =prime consideralon, and muttOn.the aceessory. If the first con -elusion, is adopted, some of the improved English mutton, varieties are undoubtedly to:be preferred; if `the list, the merino has DO competitor. • '4 While other circumstances equally ad mit, of, either husbandry, it is the market that determines which product is the most profitable toA the producer. Wool ..has vastly greater:and more universal consump tion than mutton,, because it is a prime ne cessary of life to every, man outside of the tropical zone. * ' * -* Mutton is not a necessary of life, althdtigh it is made to tontributelartely toward one—human,food. It readily adraits of substitutes. It, is scarcely used by large classes of men, and even by whoh; nations. Yet it is demon strable., that, it can he produced more cheap ly than any other meat. No meat, not even the choicest Of beefoiislncae palatable to those accustemed to its use; and none is more nutriciaus and healthful. The vigi l . list, whose success depends upon the per-• feet integrity of all his physical tissues, and functions, is as often , trained on Mutton as on beef;, the . physician as often o rocom;• mends it to the invUlid. And finally,, it wastes :less thin - NO: in being converted Into food. — r Efiritrilig,,trerefore, marks it ,as one of the Most valuable articles of hu , man consumption rand; .when its use is once established; .there: is to one which `finds a steadier - demand or more .zniformly remunerating pricei.". * • After speaking of the difficulties of sheeprraising in. anew country, which op erated to the great injury of the business in the younger days of our. country, and of the prejudice which. gradually sprung up against mutton. as, food, - hussy's ":This prejudice contiutted4intil the cam parativelyi recent „general introduction of the improved .English r muttonsheep, and rn:ttil fashion in - cities,F for., mica, inangura l ted u,grcoA,Ansksuicfp_Uchange in the publtai taste. Some of the earlier prejudices yet linger ,among our rural population ; yet the same change is making its way, not slowly, into the country. , The first qtality of mutton now commands a higher price in our markets than the first quality of beef The extent and rapidity of the change in our cities receives a striking illustration from the following facts stated in Mr. Grin nelPsißeport to the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, 1860 co' At Brighton kiear Boston), on the market day previous td Christmas., 1889, two Franklin county men held four hun dred sheep,' every one in the market, and yet so ample was that supply, and so limo. 'tive the demand, that they could not 'raise the market half a cent a pound, and finally sold with difficulty;' and just twenty years after that, at the same place, on the market day previous to Christmas, 1859, 5,400 sheep changed from the drover to the butcher.' . • • - " The, history of Boston in this.respect but the history of all ouriarger cities, towns and villages, When this taste fully extends to our rural • population; when our laboring farmers learn, as they ought to learn and will: learn, that - 20ting fat pork all the year round is not most conducive to health, and, to an enlarged general econo my; when they acquire, the: habit, as they so' conveniently could, of killing mutton habitually for, household and neighborhood consumption in, its fresh ,state ; our 'people; now the'greatest consumers of animal food among the civilized" nations of the world, will become, by: far the greatest consumers of mutton in the world. I dotibt whether the enormous-amount-which will he annu ally grown and coristimed in this country, within, fifty, years has yet occurred to our most sanguine advocates of mutton-sheep." —Boston Recorder. 1 Intelligence 'in Farmjng. Ext . racts from an address , before the New- York State Agricultural Society at Utica, by Rev. S. W. Fisher, D. D., President of Hamilton College. Speaking of the. impor tE;nce of intelligence to the farmer, he re marked ° " Now, gentle Men, the thought which rises uppermost as we survey this exhibition;the thought which ferces itself upon my.mind as I witness the success which has attended. the efforts of these producers, is this: that precisely the same principle prevails here as in all other departments of, human labor, •the prieciple that intellig,eUce, other things being equal, makes the superior farmer and mechanic; Ido not mean that a mere clas sical scholar, or profound lawyer, or a , poet, or :a 'fine writer, will necessarily be a good farmer. The field of knowledge is in finite, the objects to which it maybe applied are 'various as the pursuits ,of man, and it is utterly impossible that any man, should compass the whole or be eminent in all. .Hence we must hive a division' of laber and of thought. One man takes this depart meet and anothdr that. Your,. department is that which embraces the production of fruits, grains, and 'animals, necessary for the support and comfort of society. And what .I mean to say is, that intelligence here makes the superior producer; that with tile same diligence and labor, a thorough mas tery of all the knowledge belonging to your business will give the greatest success. "I do; not belong to that school ivhich thinks that ignorance is good enough for the masses of the people ; that because a• man must labor-with his hands his intellect is a useless:appendage. The first man God Made, the highest, most intelligent of the race, was - a farmer: He made; it his busi ness to apply his intelligence td the tilling, of the; soil, and the cultivation of its , fruit He, who could go through the highest ope rations of -the -human mind, the work of giving fit names to all the objects of nature, was not too learned or too scientific to be a cultivator of the - earth. This same princi ple of intelligence, which iti everything else gives success; has its place here as the char acteristic of the most successful operator. 'When• you pass by a farm where everything is •in its place, the fences all right, the 'fields waving with the - finest 'Crops, the trees bending beneath the weight of the best kind of-fruit, the stock such as would adorn the iark of a king, the house arranged for comfort, the barns and stables well planned and well kept, you feel instinctively that there is something there higher than mere diligence and labor ; that an intelligent mind, a master of his business, has guided the hand of labor, and the result is success. Take an illistration—what to some, may seem no illustration at all. Take one.of those fruits—a' pear, an apple—so large; rich, and luscious. It may be ttat - here a‘nd. there nature . alone may produce such fruit; but you cannot trust nature on a large scale. To 'raise such fruit uniformly you muse - put your mind into it; you must add your intelligence to guide the opera tilts of nature; you must select the right position, the best soil, and the best fruit . ; you- must graft, and prune, and care for your trees before you- can secure so fine' a product::.Nature .does much ; but nature, directed by yourlntelligence, will do vastly more. , ,Every onepf these produCts is a re sult of nature's work and your work com bined. And so God trant Should be. He Meant that inthis very way your own minds should find exercise Aloud develop ment, and you shoUld fill out the measure of an intelligent man He does not bring these things to you and say eat and drink and enjoy yourselves. But he says use . your minds, lee them guide your hands, and then nature will bless you witt her richest fruiti. - • FORM OF A DEVISE OR• BEQUEST'. TO ANY OT, BOARDS: OF. THE FILFSBITERIO CHURCH, The' State laWs 'differ so much that no one form will answer in all the States, but in every ease it is essential -to give tbs =our 001tPORATE The oldest Board, was origytally called the. Board of Miseions, but is now incorporated un der the laws of Pennsylvania under title - of " fihe Traetees of the Board' of `Domestic, Missions _of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of, America." - - Of the Board of Education the: corpoiate name is, . ‘‘The:gfriestees of the Board of Bdtea tion of the Pre.sbYterian Church in the UnitedMtee of America.' The Boaril of PernigrillissionS is, incorporate& wider the-laws of New-York, under the stile Hof The Board of Foreign Mission,t of the Priebyte-, ruin ChurCh in, the United States of America.'? The Board of Publication is incorporated un der the laws of Pannsylirania;nuder the style" Of. " The Truttoos of the Pre , sbyaricin Board of Pub lication." Boa ff 6f, Church Extension of, the. Gen !! (Mal Assembly is not incorporated, hut the, fol lowing form of beguest, it, is sapposed, would be I bequeath to my executors the, sum of dollars, in trust, to pap over, the tisane in after my decease, to the person rho, wlierf flte same shall be payable, shall act as Dreamy? of •theßoard of Church Bateasida of the' General As -'.serobly - of the Presbyterian dhuith in the United -x States.of America, loeatid in theVity of - St. Louis, • _Missouri; to be-applied to the uses and purposes of said Board, and wider its directions,.said the' receipt of, the said . Treasurer shall, be a full and legal - - acquittance 'ef my said iixtriators foc tamsame' • " When real estate or other property is giv%n, let it be particularly described. RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY IN REGARD TO COLLECTIONS. • WHERUAS, Many of our churches do not con tribute to our benevolent enterprises, and where as, it is desirable to test the - power of simultal neous effort; and whereas, an emergency has arisen, requiring the cooperation of all our churches to save our Boards from serious em barrassment; therefore, Resolved, 1. That this Assembly earnestly re quest all our churches that have no fixed times for the purpose, to take up annual collections as follows, viz.: For the. BOARD ON DOMESTIC MISSIONS 011 the FIRST SABBATH OF NOVEMBER• For the BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS on the FIRST SABBATH OF JANUARY. For the BOARD OF W BDUCATION on the FIRM SABBATH OP MAWR." For the COLPORTAGE FUND of the BOARD OF PUBLICATION on the FIRST SABB.A.Tir OF For the BOARD OF. CHURCH EXTENSION on the FIRST SABBATH Or JULY. • For the DISABLED MINISTERS' FUND on the FinST SABBATH OF SEPTEMBER. - - Relayed, 2.. That when the annual collections cannot be taken up on the days above designated,♦ it be recommended' to take them up as soon thereafter as possible. ' THE HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD. By order of the General Assembly, ...the publication of the Horne and Foreign Record in the quarto or newspaper form_ will cease with the Becember number. It will from thence printed only in the - octavo,' or pamphlet form, which• will be adtentageous to those who annually- bind it in a volume. The Matters it presents have a permanent interest. It is our duty, as Christians, to know what, as a Church, we are doing now; and, if preserved, it will,be a valuable record of the progress of the Church to Succeeding generations. - The change presents a favorable opportunity for pastors and others. interested in the welfare' of the people, to make a new effort to circulate the Record ajnong them. It ismow several yes± since any considerable accession has been made to the, list 9f subscribers, and it is thought that in many - churches there are nullibers recently added, who 'know nothing of the existence or this.periodical. It is hoped that the action of the Assembly will., meet the approval of the . . Church, which could be shown, in no better way than by a 'grief, increase of subscribers. THE HOME AND FOREIGN RECORD O THE ~PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH • • Is the organ of the Boards of Domeidic Ammons, Education,Foreign Missions, Publication, .and the Boar of Churoh. Exte.nsion, and is issued monthly; at Fifty Cents a year for a single copy. Packages to churchea,.for any number ofeepies, at 25. cents per copy. Payment in advance. Address, Mr. Peter Walker, 821 Chestnut Bt., Philadelphia:'.: - POSTAGE.—The postage of the Borne . and For eign,Record is one cent each paper, payable quer: terl3r in advance, at the office of delivery. 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