Dillon, Illinois, July 20, 1841. I am happy to inform you that the word of the Lord mightily prevails here. During the last three or four months some thirty persons in this vicinity have come boldly forward, and gone down into the water confessing their belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of the only true and living God. Brethren Young, Lindsey, Palmer, and Walter Bowls have been with us as public speakers, and have apparently done much good. A church was organized in Sand Prairie about the 6th instant, with 25 or 26 members. The oppo sition here is tremendous. The Presbyterians, Methodists, and some of the old Friends are the most bitter: yet many of the sons and daughters of the Quakers have felt it their duty to get immersed and join the Christian church. The prospect here is very flatter. ing, and May God grant success to the cause! C. GILL, Edgar county, Illinois, July 30, 1841. The good cause is progressing in our part of the West. In this county, since the first of June last, there have been marshalled under the banner of King Emanuel, principally by the labors of our efficient brother Michael Combs, about 60 souls, which, together with the fruits of his labors elsewhere within the same time, make about 100. Prospects continue favorable for greater achievements. The brethren appear generally sensible of the magnitude of the work before them. May we, as we increase in numbers, grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth, until we shail Indeed sustain the character of "The light of the world" and "The salt of the earth"! S. YORK. Georgetown, Kentucky, July 22, 1841. Health and peace through Jesus Christ our Lord! I have recently taken two excur sions in the cause of the Lord. The first with brother Shannon; during which we gained 5 additions. The second with brethren Allen Kendrick and R. Rice. of four days; during which we gained 17 additions, 16 of them at Somerset, the field of labor of our worthy brother Smith, and one at Flat Rock on our return home. The harvest is ripe, and much good can be done by continual effort; but incessant labor and toil is indispensable to JOHN T. JOHNSON. Florida, Missouri, July 15, 1841. success. I wrote you two weeks since, informing you of the meeting held by brother Thomas Smith and myself in Santa Fee. We left there and came to this place; had an evening meeting; when two made the good confession. We went from this to Paris, where we gained 18 more, 4 of whom were from the Baptists. We then separated. Brother Smith had a meeting of one day four miles south of Paris, where he gained 4 more I returned to Santa Fee, where I labored for three days, and got 10 from the Baptists, and 27 to Inake the good confession-making 37 in all at this meeting. So you see that in about two weeks we gained 82 to the good cause of Christ. I leave to day for Palmyra. May the God of heaven be with us and help us! U. THOMAS. Scott county, Indiana. On the 10th day of April, after a public discourse on the conversation held between our Saviour and Nicodemus, I had the pleasure of introducing nine persons into the kingdom of God's divine favor. On the first Lord's day in May two more obeyed the Lord. On the first Lord's day in July I immersed seven more at the same place. On Saturday last, near Little York, Washington county, one obeyed the Lord. JOHN F. WARMOUTH. White Sulphur Springs, July 26, 1841. The cause is improving considerably in some of the lower countics. Encouraging additions have been made in Matthews, York, and James City. J. W. GOSS. Philadelphia, July 30, 1841. 1 have the satisfaction to inform you that a congregation of Disciples has been formed in the northern part of the city of Philadelphia, owing to the change made by the original congregation in its place of meeting. It was too long a distance for the members up town conveniently to go; and, as several reasons operated on our minds to make it desirable that another society should be formed, we availed ourselves of the time when the removal was to take place, and opened a place for worship on the 4th of July, in the Hall of the Vigilant Fire Company, in Race street, below Second street. We number 28, and are in brotherly union, striving for the faith and hope presented in the gospel. We have chosen for the present brother J. L. Rhees, President; brother William Keron, Deacon and brother John W. M Mahon, Clerk. We shall be happy to see the Disciples who occasionally visit the city, and shall be glad of the co-operation and help of our proclaiming brethren.* J. L RHEES. Russelville, Putnam county, Indiana, July 5, 1841. I have just returned, a short time since, from Kentucky. Brother N. Waters and my self visited the brethren in several counties south of the Kentucky. We found the brethren not in as good a state as we could have wished: but as our object was to stir up the brethren, and bring about that order that should obtain in every congregation. We succeeded in a tolerable degree, and prepared the way for some other brethren to reap a * Brother Rhees, send ine a copy of your late work on "English Orthocpy." I learn hat it is well spoken of. A.C. good harvest, At Givens's meeting-house, in Lincoln county, where we labored most, old brother Creath commenced operations on Saturday after we left, and we understood immersed some fifteen or twenty persons. At my first appointment after I got home, I immersed one; at the next two-one a very pious Methodist-the other a Secederboth excellent persons; at my next appointment, which was last Saturday, I immersed one more; and Lord's day three more; and the prospect still better. May God grant the pure gospel of Christ may spread and triumph until pride and bigotry, priestcraft aud every sectarian craft may sink to rise no more forever! Amen! JOHN M. HARRIS. Humility, Kentucky, June 20, 1841. Since my last I have understood by those who were at the meeting at Scroggins, after I left, that eight more were immersed, making seventeen in all during the meeting. J. R. HOWARD. Pulaski county, Virginia, July 1, 1841. CHESTER BULLARD. About 20 have been baptized in the last month. PROPOSALS, For publishing in the town of Springfield, a monthly periodical, containing a common sense view of unfulfilled Prophecy; entitled THE ALARM. THE world, no doubt, is approaching the most eventful period known since the crea tion; and prophetic allusions to these events mistaken and misapplied. The burden of unfulfilled prophecy stands pointing at the dissolution of the present Gentile or Christian dispensation-not the dissolution of nature at all. The dissolution of nature by fire is unreasonable and unscriptural! This is the key that unlocks the whole secret of prophecy! No other consistent system of expounding its meaning ever has, or ever can, be proposed to the faith of man! It is high time the meaning of prophecy were known-stript of absurdities and contradictions; for it will soon be unfolded in vengeance and deciphered in ruin!! We propose showing that the rolling together of the heavens like a scroll-to wit, the church, with all its appendages; and the deluge of fire proposed in holy writ to be premillennial, and to consummate a similar design with the flood of waters-a scourge on incurable corruption! The true Millennial Harbingers are to be famine, war, pestilence and lire!! The Millennium is to be a new dispensation, as different from the present as the present is from the past. In the past we read the history of the future. Dispensations have closed: therefore, may close again The present is to close with tremendous judg. ments-a universal wreck of all human government-with all the vials of wrath written in the Apocalypse. The events are to come on the world as a snare, while the clergy. are sleeping-dreaming about renovations, restorations, or outpourings of the Spirit! To use a strong figure, the Christian world is slumbering on a volcano, and the pulpit crying, 'Peace and safety!' The pulpit is hailing a millennial dawn; instead of which the world is to be drenched in blood-it is spreading a banquet of peace when the Lord's sword is to be bathed in heaven! The literal advent of the Son of Man is at hand, and the churches warring about creeds, territory, or gold. Men are restoring Christianity on paper, without making men better-wil hout checking the tide of vice. Church apostacy-a shocking increase of scepticism and crime are visible-are the true harbingers of his coming! A time of trouble approaching, "such as never was," and the world asleep-priest and people. Without respect to party, we call upon all to awake. "Behold the Bridegroom cometh!" We invite investigation-challenge the most rigid scrutiny of all the learned on earth. We are impelled from a sense of duty, to offer our views to the world; and in-so doing, have to overcome a strong dislike to religious periodicals. We therefore propose publishing in the town of Springfield, Missouri, a monthly periodical, devoted to the above subjects-excluding all others. We have no party purposes to promote-will never have. The work will be discontinued when our views are fairly before the world. We will aim at brevity and perspicuity. Money is not our object-yet solicit public patronage. Single-handed and alone, we approach a field of controversy, involving matters of higher importance to man than any thing on earth, except his personal salvation TERMS. The work will be published monthly, and contain 16 large imperial octavo pages, and furnished to subscribers at $1,25 per annum, or five copies for $5,00. The work will be commenced so soon as the subscription will justify. All letters to the Editor must he post paid The publication will be commenced the 15th of September next. Springfield, Missouri, June 22, 1841. S. M. M CORKLE, A Layman. BETHANY COLLEGE. In reply to questions concerning the most direct routes to Bethany College from differeut points in the Union, we give the following directions: Those South of us, in Eastern Virginia and the Carolinas either via Baltimore or Winchester, will seek the National Road which leads to Wheeling; thence 16 miles up the river to Weilsburg, where they will find a conveyance7 miles out to the College. Those any where in the Valley of the Mississippi, or on the borders of the Ohio, up or down, will find no difliculty in arriving at Wellsburg on the bank of the Ohio. Those North and East will either by Lake Erie seek Cleaveland, about 120 miles from Bethany, via New Lisbon and Wellsville; or by Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The National Road and the Ohio River are the two great thoroughfares which at two points are about equidistant from Bethany College. A. C. MEETING S. A MEETING will take place at Smyrna, in King & Queen county, the Friday before the first Lord's day in October, when the means of a more efficient co-operation will be considered. All the brethren in Eastern Virginia are earnestly solicited to attend. J. W. GOSS. The Annual Meeting for Upper Missouri will be held at Lexington, Missouri, commencing on Friday before the first Lord's day in October. We hope that every congrega. tion will be represented. We also hope that preaching brethren who design visiting our state this fall, will make it convenient to be present. T. N. GAINES. An Annual Meeting will be held at Frankfort, Pike county, Missouri, commencing on Friday before the second Lord's day in October. THOMAS PITT. A State Meeting will be held in Fayette, Missouri, to commence on Friday before the 2d Lord's day in September. T. M. ALLEN. OBITUARY. Pulaski county, Virginia, July 1, 1841. DEPARTED this life, most triumphantly, on the 25th of June, SUSAN VERMILLION, in the 15th year of her age, having been about three years a disciple in the school of Christ, C. BULLARD. Woodford, Kentucky, July 26, 1841 Dear brother Campbell-I have to give you the melancholy intelligence of the death of our much esteemed brother THOMAS BULLOCK. He departed this life this evening at 10 P. M., in the full assurance of a blessed immortality, triumphing in the faith of the gospel, He lingered long and suffered much; but bore his pain with true Christian fortitude. GOODLOE CARTER Brother Bullock was one of the first reformers in Kentucky. He had presided over the Elkhorn Association more than 2 dozen years, I believe, in succession. He took a decided stand on the great questions discussed in the Christian Baptist, and was an honor to the cause from the day of his espousing it to the day of his death. A.C. ROBERT OWEN, formerly of Lanark, Scotland, and HUMPHREY MARSHALL, of Kentucky, two decided enemics of the Bible, with whom I have wrestled in defence of our common faith, have, as reported-the one at Glasgow, the other at Lexington-recently departed this life, and entered that state where the reality of the pretensions of Jesus of Nazareth never has been, and never will be, a matter of doubtful dispu tation. A. C. TO CORRESPONDENTS. BAPTISM-the import of baptize, by Rev. Ed. Beecher, President of Illinois College, by a correspondent in Cincinnati, is under consideration. Transcendentalism-Letter from Elder T. M. Henley, with sundry communications, deferred till our next. Letter from S. M. McCorkle, a Layman, next month, &c &c. Dear Sir, THE undersigned having been appointed a committee of correspondence for the Education Convention, to be held in this place on the second Wednesday in September next, have thought proper to request you to deliver an address at the opening of said Convention on the subject of Primary or Common Schools. You are probably acquainted with the object of the Convention, and you can shape your remarks accordingly. We earnestly hope that you will comply with our request. From our knowledge of your character, we cannot regard you as a disinterested spectator of the movements that are now being made in North-Western Virginia: therefore, "come over and help us." If you cannot come, send us your views in print, or manuscript, as may suit you best. J H. McMECHEN, Gentlemen, C. A. HARPER, W. P. GOFF, W. A. HARRISON, G. D CAMDEN, P. CHAPIN, J. McCALLY. BETHANY, Va., September 1, 1841. Circumstances which, with all my desires to be amongst you, I could not control, have obliged me to furnish you with a few thoughts on the whole premises instead of my personal presence. I have thrown them into the form of an Address; which, with this my apology, you will please, should you think them worthy, have read during your session. Sincerely and greatly desirous that your efforts in this patriotic, benevo lent, and all-engrossing concern, may be crowned with abundant success, I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your fellow laborer and obedient servant, AN ADDRESS. ADDRESS to the Convention assembled at Clarksburg, Virginia, on the subject of Primary or Common Schools, September 8, 1841. FELLOW-CITIZENS, THIS, I trust, is an auspicious day for the Old Dominion. I hail it as a day long to be remembered, on which, for the first time, a respectable portion of the intelligence, patriotism, and philanthropy of cis-Alpine Virginia have assembled in convention gravely and benevolently to deliberate on the ways and means by which this com munity shall discharge to itself its paramount and all-transcendent duty. For if there be any truth in the oft-repeated maxim that a representative government depends not merely for its prosperity and perpetuity, but for its very existence, on the intelligence and virtue of its citizens; evident it is, that the great and superlative duty of the people and of that government they have placed over them is to provide for, and secure that intelligence and virtue, by a system of education not only rational and well adapted in itself, but also co-extensive with the entire wants of the whole community. Until this be done, our liberties are not secured; and nothing can be effectually done to perpetuate and extend to our heirs and successors that rich inheritance obtained for us at the expense of so much blood and treasure, and transmitted to us by those noble spirits who for this end imperilled all, and staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Two objects will naturally engross the attention of this Convention. The first-What sort of an education is adapted to the common wants of the whole community, to the happiness and prosperity of the state? and the second-How is it to be made truly common and accessible to all? But as introductory to this discussion, certain great principles ought to be clearly propounded, developed, and accredited by those who undertake to effect this great moral revolution in the community. The interest that the State has, purely as a matter of policy, in establishing and sustaining such a system in whole or in part; the duties which devolve upon the government in reference to the establishment and maintenance of such a system, should be thoroughly laid open to the apprehension and full conviction of all persons of mature age and reason. These points should be elaborated, illustrated, and confirmed by facts and documents, plain and undeniable, in all the primary meetings of the people. Lecturers should perigrinate every town, village, and hamlet in the whole State, and awaken up the whole community to the consideration of the matter. In arguing the first point-the political interest that the State has in establishing and patronizing universal education-care should be taken to show that educated mind is the true commonwealth of every community. This may be done by showing clearly and conclusively that it is mind and society, and only these two, that find any value in the earth above that which the brutal creation enjoy. Of what use, for example, are hills and mountains stored with minerals and metals of the most useful and valuable character, without educated mind to search them out, and to convert them into the various services of society? Of what value to the Indian are the forests of Lebanon in which he roams, or the mountains and hills |