Appropriations, Modification of Rule on, 204. Aranama College, Texas, 78, 300. Makemie College, Arkansas, 269. McDonough College, Illinois, 141. Memphis, Synod of, Education in, 13. Miller Academy, 300. Mind and Heart, 75. Ministers and Colleges, 171. come short of the Demands of Providence, New Parochial Schools, 109. Mitchell, Joseph B., Resignation of, 297. One Reason why they are so few, 76. -, Why they are decreasing, 169. Catechetical Instruction, 171. Charter of the Board of Education, 137. Chartered Corporations in Education, 107. Church Hill Academy, Texas, 141. Christiansburgh, Virginia, Academies at, 269. Our Aggressive Work impeded, 265. Outward Agencies not at fault, 297. Palmyra Presbyterial Academy, 11. Pastoral Letter to Candidates for the Ministry, 43. Practical Suggestions, Two, 235. Prayer, Day of Special, 41, 364. Preachers for the People, 265. Preaching, and the End of Preaching, 10. and Increase of Membership, 331. Receipts, 14, 45, 80, 110, 142, 173, 206, 238, 270, 302, Denominational and other Colleges, 77. Des Moines College, Iowa, 13. Destitutions, Our abounding, 138. 334, 365. Responsibilities of the Church, 233. Dordrecht, Synod of, Resolution in regard to Catechizing, Schools, Church, 109, 140. 171. Fletcher, Ohio, School at, 267. Fort Wayne Academy, Indiana, 332. General Assembly, Action of, 202. Geneseo Academy, Revival at, 77. God chooses the Poor of this World, 365. Good Influences of a School, 11, 79. Lodiana Mission, 15, 48, 111, 144, 176, 241, 309. Isaipur, the Christian Village, 242, 275, 343. Janvier, Rev. L., Letter from, 176. Johnson, Rev. W. A. B., Memoir of, 55. Rev. John H. Morrison, 241. Rev. A. H. Seeley, 178, 215, 273. Julundur School, 376. London Jews Society, 280, 311. Confession of Faith, 347. Let there be Light, 27. Louisville Depository and the Presbytery of Muhlenburg, 187. - Presbytery of, Resolution in favour of a De- Mahon, Rev. Joseph, Letter from, 187. Memphis, Presbytery of, Encouragement from, 221. Musgrave, Rev. George W., his Resignation of the Office of Corresponding Secretary, 347. "Narrative of the State of Religion," 221. Notices of New Books and Tracts, 28, 61, 124, 156, 188, Pernicious Fiction, 283. Prejudices abated, 93. Congregationalists, their Testimony in behalf of Presby- Presbyterianism, Advance of, 252. terianism, 221. Corresponding Secretary, 347, 379. Demand for Books, 316, 380. Destitution of the West, 27. Difficulty, The Great, 60, Diligent Bible Student, 379. Doddridge's Rise and Progress, 380. Eagerness to read Good Books, 93. Encouraging, 380. Faithful Mother's Reward, 380. General Assembly, Resolutions of, 220. Good News, 60. Presbyterian Psalmodist, 380. Questions for Pastors, 61., Reading for the Summer Holidays, 252. Receipts, 30, 62, 94, 126, 158, 190, 222, 256, 286, 318, 350, 382. Do we know how to Pray? 34. Light Reading, 193. Living Fountain, The, 290. Minister's Quarter Pay-Day, 226. "Our Rest," 34, 161. Preaching of the Press, 97. Presbyterian Sabbath-School Visitor, 284. Ecclesiastical Record, 31, 63, 95, 127, 159, 191, 223, Reading for Students, 1. 255, 287, 319, 351, 382. Free Church of Scotland, 255. Gems for the Christian's Cabinet, 127. General Assembly, Abstract of Proceedings of, 191, 223. Green Leaves for Winter Hours, 193. Home and Foreign Record, 290. Importance of Doctrinal Truth, 389. Increase of the Presbyterian Church, 252. "I shall be satisfied," 1. "I would not live alway," 66. "It is more blessed to give than to receive," 353. Real Power, 258. Resignation, 257. Religion our best support on the Journey of Life, 33, 65. Study of History, The Advantages of the, 321. "The Border Land," 129. Thoughts for Ministers, 159. Varieties, 31, 63, 95, 287, 319. Why the difference? 98. Not here! Not here! Not satisfied! wherever On the fulfilment of its promise shone. Not where the light from happy eyes is fading, Not where so many cold, harsh words are spoken, Not here where every dream of bliss deceives us, Not here! Not here! not where the sparkling waters There is a land where every pulse is thrilling With rapture earth's sojourners may not know, And the heart vainly to conceive it tries. Satisfied? Satisfied? the spirit's yearning For sweet companionship with kindred minds- Shall they be satisfied? The soul's vague longings- No. 1. Thither my weak and weary steps are tending- LIVE FOR SOMETHING. R. A. R. Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished-their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal! Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name by kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as bright on the earth as the stars of heaven.-Chalmers. READING FOR STUDENTS. The Board of Publication have in press a new edition of the late Dr. Miller's "Letters of a Father to his Sons in College." This book is written in the author's best style, and contains just such cautions and advices, as to the literary, moral, and religious course of a student, as every pious parent would wish to put into the hands of a beloved child. We present an extract from the chapter on "General Reading." We regret that our limits will not allow a more extended extract. gen of these writers, you cannot appreciate the riches, the beauties, or the purity of your vernacular tongue, or hope successfully to train yourselves to a good "Let your general reading be such as is adapted style of writing. In these writers, too, you will find to be useful. Think of the great ends of education. a great store-house of fine sentiment, as well as of They are to form proper intellectual and moral hab-happy diction, adapted greatly to enlarge and eleits, and to fill the mind with solid, laudable know-vate the mind, to impart to it the highest polish, and ledge. And as life is so short, and the field of to prepare it for its best efforts. No matter what knowledge so very extensive, we cannot, of course, the profession may be to which you intend to devote know every thing; we cannot find time to read all your lives; in any and every walk of life you will the books which are worthy of being read. Of the find a familiarity with these English classics of inesmany within our reach we must make a selection; timable value. No man ever heard Alexander Hamand that this selection ought to be made with dis-ilton or Daniel Webster plead at the bar, without crimination and judgment needs no formal proof. perceiving the potency of the weapons which they The studies prescribed by authority for your classes continually derived from their acquaintance with will occupy, I trust, with indefatigable diligence, this class of writings. Who ever listened to the the greater part of your time. Need I employ argu- speeches of John Quincy Adams, or Henry Clay, or ment to convince you that the reading destined to any of their noble compeers, in the Senate-house, occupy the interstitial spaces of your time, not filled without recognizing how largely this department of with prescribed studies, should be of a kind adapted reading added to the richness, the fascination, and the to unbend, and at the same time, to enlighten, to power of their eloquence? It might be supposed, at enlarge and invigorate the mind, and to add to the first view, that the masters of the healing art could amount of its valuable furniture?***You ought derive but little aid, either in practising or teaching to be as choice of your books for what is called their favourite science, from an intimate acquainteral reading, as the prudent man who is in delicate ance with the best English classics. But the slighthealth feels bound to be in the selection of his est acquaintance with the most distinguished mediarticles of aliment. There is a wide range of read-cal writers and teachers of Great Britain, will show ing, comprehending what may properly be called English classics, with which every educated man is expected to have some acquaintance. ***To the list of authors of whom I thus speak, belong Bacon, Shakspeare, and Milton, of the seventeenth century, and Addison, Steele, Pope, Thomson, Young, Goldsmith, Johnson, Cowper, Beattie, and a number of others, of the eighteenth; to which may be added Clarendon, Robertson, Hume, and several more who have figured as votaries of the historic muse. In this catalogue I have forborne to insert the names of some writers greatly distinguished as theologians, because, however worthy of universal stuly, popular feeling does not generally require that they should be the objects of youthful study. But there are two works, even of this class, which I cannot help sing ling out as indispensable objects of attention on the part of all cultivated thinkers. I refer to Butler's Analogy, and Edwards's treatise on the Will. What would be thought of an educated young man who had no acquaintance with any of the eminent writers just named but by hearsay? True, indeed, a few of these writers are not wholly unexceptionable in regard to the moral character of some of their pages; but their intellectual and literary eminence is trans- CONSECRATION OF WEALTH.-It is estimated by Sir cendent; and when read with discrimination and David Brewster, that of the free annual income of caution, the youthful aspirant to knowledge and elo- Great Britain and Ireland not more than £1 in £750 quence may derive from them the richest advantages. is given for the spread of Christian truth in heathen The truth is, without an acquaintance with the mass the egregious error of this estimate. And who ever lands. |