THE MYRTLE. This is the original Juvenile Paper of the Denomination. Most of our Sunday Schools take it. But families of our Faith, that reside where there is no Sunday School of our Church, will find it a help, and a welcome visitor to their children. Single copies, 50 cents per year; 10 or more copies to one address, 30 cents cach per year. Payment to be made in advance. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, 37 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. MIGNONETTE, One of the "PRIZE SERIES," an excellent book for young people, is just published. Price, $1.50. A NEW EDITION OF THE BALANCE; OR, MORAL ARGUMENT FOR UNIVERSALISM. By Rev. A. D. MAYO. 32mo. Very neatly bound in bevelled boards and red edges. Lettered on the side and back. Price, 60 cents per copy. Sent by mail, postage paid. A NEW EDITION OF THE BOOK OF PROMISES. Very neatly bound in bevelled boards and red edges. Lettered on the side and back. Price, 60 cents per copy. Sent by mail, postage paid. OVER THE RIVER, By Rev. T. B. THAYER, D.D., although not exactly a new book, is selling as if it were a new one. This is probably the most popular book ever issued from the Universalist Press, and as a source of comfort to the sorrowing, and as presenting a cheering view of death and the afterlife to all, it is read and greatly enjoyed regardless of denominational limits. Price, in plain binding, $1.50; bevelled boards, red edges, $1.75 A Sabbath School Singing-Book. Prepared by the Rev. John G. Adams. This little book was not issued till late in the season, and yet over 6,000 copies have been sold. It is very popular. Price, in board covers, $3.60 per dozen. DR. A NEW VOLUME OF PAIGE'S COMMENTARY, On the First and Second Epistles to the Corinthians is now ready for delivery. In size, type, and binding, it is uniform with the other volumes of the Commentary. Price, $1.50. UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, Send orders to FOR 1869. The Almanac and Register for 1869 is published. We wish that every Universalist family would arrange to use it for the family Almanac. It will be desirable as an Almanac, for it will contain an excellent Calendar, amply sufficient for family use. Important events are inserted in the Calendar, especially those of our denomination. It will contain a list of our Denominational Schools and Colleges, an Obituary Record and of deceased ministers and eminent laymen, a list of Societies with their pastors, the Post-Office address of all the Ministers of the denomination. It is an important and very valuable little book. No home among us should be without a copy. Price, single copy, 20 cents; per dozen, $1.60; per hundred, $10.00. Sent by mail for 20 cents. VESTRY 37 Cornhill, Boston. HARMONIES. The New Conference Hymn and Tune Book, by Rev. J. G. Adams, is published and ready for delivery It is printed upon fine paper, and neatly bound in cloth. It contains one hundred and thirty-one tunes, and two hundred and fifty-six hymns. It has been under the eye of a large number of competent and interested brethren, and has received the benefit of their suggestions and criticisms. No efforts have been spared to make it a superior book, and a standard one among our people. Price, 50 cts. "It will, we think, meet with a demand in several respects. First of all, it is the first book of the kind that comes in convenient shape, with the single exception of the one sent out many years ago by the Rev. A. C. Thomas. It is in the usual form of a book. Again, it has the advantage of tolerably large type, - the music and the hymns coming on the same page. Every page has music in part, and hymns in part. ... We are sure the new book will be a favorite. Those societies who keep up the weekly Conference will find it a great help." - Ambassador. "It is a very pretty volume, clearly and tastefully printed, and bound up in neat and convenient shape. We have no hesitancy in pronouncing it the best collection of hymns and tunes for social worship that has yet appeared among us."- Universalist. "The best of the kind ever published."-New Covenant. Send orders to BENTON SMITH, Agent, Universalist Publishing House, 37 Cornhill, Boston. JUVENILE BOOKS. THE "PRIZE" SERIES. Books written in competition for prizes - these being the best out of thirty-three offered, and for which the prizes were awarded. 16mo. Fancy Cloth. Put up in neat boxes. Per vol. VICTORY, $1.5 THE SOLDIERS' DAUGHTER, MIGNONETTE Kaleidoscope Pictures. ELLEN LEE. For Boys and Girls; with new and fine illustrations. 4 vols., 16mo. Fancy Cloth, full gilt backs. Put up in boxes. Per vol. KALID AND KITTIE, ..... 1.2 GOLD ROBIN, " SUMMER, Round Hill Series. With new and Original illustrations. 4 vols., 16mo. ED. LEE & SAILOR DICK, TWILIGHT STORIE These Juveniles are printed on fine paper, and all bound in fine English cloth, fancy colors. books are of a high and pure character. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. NEW VOLUME-JAN. 1ST. The REPOSITORY is now one of the handsomest monthlies published, and one of the best religious and literary magazines in the country. It has been received with great favor during the year, and large additions have been made to the number of the subscribers. The publisher will spare no efforts to make the next volume of the Magazine fully equal to the present one. The January Number will contain a fine steel engraving of REV. J. P. WESTON, D.D., President of Lombard University, Illinois; accompanied by a sketch of his life, and of the University over which he presides. A NEW STORY, BY MRS. HELEN L. BOSTWICK, Will commence in the January Number and extend through the volume to July. MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE Will contribute to the Magazine regularly. MRS. CAROLINE M. SAWYER, And others of our ablest writers, will also continue to write for its pages. The REPOSITORY is in every way suited to the Family Circle. It is the only work of the kind published in our denomination; and we ask all our friends and patrons to aid us in extending its circulation. It is now the season of the year when families are considering what Magazines they will take. We ask those of our own denomination not to forget their own Magazine. Le. our friends forward their subscriptions. Specimen copies sent free upon application. Address -Bentou Smith, Agent, Universalist Publishing House, 37 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. TRAVELLING AGENT. MR. GEO. W. BROWN is agent to solicit subscriptions for "The Ladies' Repository," "The Quarterly," "The Universalist," and "The Myrtle; " to take orders for books, and to make collections; and he is commended to the favor and confidence of the people upon whom he may call. THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF SALVATION. A DISCUSSION BETWEEN REV. E. FISHER, D.D., AND REV. J. H. WALDEN, On the proposition, "ALL MEN WILL BE FINALLY SAVED." This work is a handsome pamphlet of 70 pages. Dr. Fisher's ability should insure a wide circulation of this work. Price, 30 cts. Sent by mail for 30 cts. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, 37 CORNHILL, BOSTON, MASS. THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. APRIL, 1869. THE HEAVEN OF OUR FAITH. BY REV. G. S. WEAVER. HE man powers of mind and heart; in spite of darkness brooding everywhere over the human soul; in spite of death cutting down of the grave concealing every beloved form from view; in spite of sorrow dimming the eyes of all weeping mortals, the inborn faith of men everywhere rests in a final heaven as their refuge and rest from the ills they now suffer. [EAVEN is the common hope of human-humanity with a remorseless scythe; in spite ity. Men in all conditions look upward anticipating rest and joy. Their ideas of heaven differ according to their religion and culture; but they intuitively long and hope for such a heaven as fills their minds with most satisfying reflections. This is not a hope created by revelation or culture. It is natural—the spontaneous production of the soil of the human soul—a plant of indigenous growth, flowering wherever man lives, and shedding the fragrance of immortal airs over all his existence. The untutored Indian revels in it; the tribes of Ethiopia feel it swelling in their bosoms; savage and barbarian everywhere share its inspiring power in common with all humanity. It is a universal intuition. And this fact intimates the reality to which it points. Heaven does exist; else why this universal hope, this powerful attraction lifting all souls upward and imparting to them a delightful anticipation of some sublime glory to come? Heaven waits for man beyond the vail of his sight; else why this all-embracing trust in the future as charged with possibilities which now only sleep in the best aspirations of men? The door of some divine bome stands ajar; else why this allspreading light winning all eyes to its auroral splendors and imaging therein the divinest beings and conditions possible to human imagination? In spite of sin paralyzing all hu VOL. XLI.-16 This natural hope of heaven, revelation is given to cherish, enlighten, and glorify. Of itself, it is dim and uncertain. It gropes in the dark; it is bewildered by superstition; it is distorted by sin; it is subject to the common conditions of human judgment and affection, and needs to be instructed, chastened and redeemed, that its voice may be received as the voice of God, and its joys accepted as a foretaste of heaven. Philosophy is incompetent to the work of regulating and instructing this inborn aspiration. Science can give it no new light. Nothing short of revelation can correct and enlighten the vision of this common intuition. And this is one of the works of revelation. What to the common hope of humanity is a vision, revelation makes a fact. The heaven the natural heart longs for, revelation establishes as a blissful reality. The restful blessedness men everywhere crave, revelation announces as the ultimate purpose of God in relation to his dependent family. Revelation makes certain what is otherwise only a hope. Heaven is, therefore, a reality. Life, in some glo |