VOLUME VII. THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, DEVOTED TO THE SOCIAL, LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OF YOUNG MEN AND LADIES. EDITED BY REV. H. HARBAUGH. Six years The Guardian has gone forth in the service of the young. Time has shown that we were not mistaken when we commenced its publication, convinced that something of the kind was needed. Our labors have been cheered by the approbation of many young gentlemen and ladies, who have continued to manifest the warmest interest in our magazine. The Guardian will keep on in its accustomed course. It will be, as heretofore, devoted to the highest interests of the young, at the most solemn and interesting period of their life. It will offer its friendly councils to them in an earnest though free and cheerful way. It will solemnly seek to warn them against the wrong, and affectionately allure them to the right. The Editor will endeavor to make its contents true, pure, fresh, and healthy as the morning of life. It will particularly urge self-culture and early piety as of the highest importance. It will seek to move in the element of its motto: "Life-Light-Love." The Guardian has no denominational or party bias. It interferes not with controversies either in Church or State. It is its ambition to take the quite way of peace and love. It would turn the attention of its readers to that first and greatest of duties, the cultivation of the heart, mind, social feelings, and pious affections. It will have its reward if it can be the means of making Hearts better, Homes happier, and Heaven surer. The evidence that it has in a degree done this, which the experience of six years has furnished, is more precious to us than gain or gold. Cheerfully, hopefully, and believingly we look into the future as we take our pilgrim-staff in hand to travel another year. The Guardian enters on its SEVENTH VOLUME with the January number. It contains thirty-two pages monthly, making a handsome volume of three hundred and eighty-fou pages at the end of the year. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. The Guardian has worked its way silently upward ever since its commencement, and is still gaining in favor and, we believe, also in merit. The Publisher therefore respectfully makes the following requests: 1. Pastors, who receive this Prospectus, are requested to hand it to some active member of the church, who will procure subscribers for The Guardian. If ten subscribers are obtained, we will send one copy to the person obtaining them and one to the pastor, gratis. 2. We respectfully ask Young Men to aid us in increasing our circulation. It will be an easy thing for them to raise a club among their companions. 3. The largest lists we have yet received were from Young Ladies. We respectfully ask them to continue their favors. It is a mode of doing good which admirably suits their sphere. 4. Some School Teachers have done kindly and well for The Guardian. May we not hope for their co-operation in a work which so well falls in with their own? 5. Postmasters are requested to act as our agents, to whom we will allow the usual percentage. Specimen numbers sent when requested. The Editor and Publisher are determined to do everything in their power, still farther to deserve the encouragement of the Christian public, and to make The Guardian acceptable and profitable to its readers. The seventh volume will appear with VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS; with new and clear type, and heavy white paper-much superior to that heretofore used. The January number will be embellished with a fine steel engraving. The Monthly Retrospect will be omitted, and its space occupied by matter like that af the other part of the Magazine. TERMS ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR-IN ADVANCE. Any one who sends us five subsoribers, with $5 cash, will receive one copy for one year, gratis. Twelve copies will be sent for $10; twenty-five copies for $20. ADDRESS THE PUBLISHER, JOHN H. PRARSOL, Lancaster, Pa. 2. LINES BY MILTON IN HIS OLD AGE.......... 3. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER'S DREAM. 4. HUMAN LIFE. (Poetry.).. 5. OUR TREASURES AND OUR HEARTS. J. V. E. 6. GOD IS LOVE. JOSEPHUS. III.-The Double Home. IV.-Evil Company. V.-The Accepted Time. 9. LITTLE BY LITTLE. (Poetry.).. 10. SAMUEL ROGERS, THE POET. EDITOR 11. THE TREES OF THE BIBLE. EDITOR: No. XVI.-The Almug Tree. ... 44 12. THE COAT OF JESUS AND THE CLOAK OF PAUL. S. R. L. Gaussen, 56 13. SECRET DEVOTION. (Poetry.) Macaulay's History of England-A Glance at Private Libraries, etc, etc. ..1 Annie A Fetzer..........1 Martha A Hyle.... Emaline Souder.. ..1 John G North.....1 Philip Heilman..... ..1 Jacob Burkholder.....50c | Cyrus Boyer...............1 (RECEIPTS CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE OF COVER.) Clarissa Williams.. HC Hoover.. Mary C Kay .1 Susan R. Wire. .1 Lydia M. Filler.. .1 Mary McNeely.. .1 Sarah E. Everhart.. ..1 Rev. G. H. Martin.......1 ....1 Daniel Miller...... 1 Benj Singer Margaret J Thomas... Susan Hosler. .1 Henry Rouzer.... Jacob Balliet .1 James Hendershot. .50c Adam Heilman...... 1 DF Wagner.... .1 .50c H. L. Schoedler.. .1 George Blain. -1 J. C. A. Hoffeditz.. Wm I Follmer... VOLUME VII. THE GUARDIAN: ATMONTHLY MAGAZINE, DEVOTED TO THE SOCIAL, LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OF YOUNG MEN AND LADIES. EDITED BY REV. H. HARBAUGH. Six years The Guardian has gone forth in the service of the young. Time has shown that we were not mistaken when we commenced its publication, convinced that something of the kind was needed. Our labors have been cheered by the approbation of many young gentlemen and ladies, who have continued to manifest the warmest interest in our magazine. The Guardian will keep on in its accustomed course. It will be, as heretofore, devoted to the highest interests of the young, at the most solemn and interesting period of their life. It will offer its friendly councils to them in an earnest though free and cheerful way. It will solemnly seek to warn them against the wrong, and affectionately allure them to the right. The Editor will endeavor to make its contents true, pure, fresh, and healthy as the morning of life. It will particularly urge self-culture and early piety as of the highest importance. It will seek to move in the element of its motto: "Life-Light-Love." The Guardian has no denominational or party bias. It interferes not with controversies either in Church or State. It is its ambition to take the quite way of peace and love. It would turn the attention of its readers to that first and greatest of duties, the cultivation of the heart, mind, social feelings, and pious affections. It will have its reward if it can be the means of making Hearts better, Homes happier, and Heaven surer. The evidence that it has in a degree done this, which the experience of six years has furnished, is more precious to us than gain or gold. Cheerfully, hopefully, and believingly we look into the future as we take our pilgrim-staff in hand to travel another year. The Guardian enters on its SEVENTH VOLUME with the January number. It contains thirty-two pages monthly, making a handsome volume of three hundred and eighty-four pages at the end of the year. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. The Guardian has worked its way silently upward ever since its commencement, and it is still gaining in favor and, we believe, also in merit. The Publisher therefore respectfully makes the following requests: 1. Pastors, who receive this Prospectus, are requested to hand it to some active member of the church, who will procure subscribers for The Guardian. If ten subscribers are obtained, we will send one copy to the person obtaining them and one to the pastor, gratis. 2. We respectfully ask Young Men to aid us in increasing our circulation. It will be an easy thing for them to raise a club among their companions. 3. The largest lists we have yet received were from Young Ladies. We respectfully ask them to continue their favors. It is a mode of doing good which admirably suits their sphere. 4. Some School Teachers have done kindly and well for The Guardian. May we not hope for their co-operation in a work which so well falls in with their own? 5. Postmasters are requested to act as our agents, to whom we will allow the usual percentage. Specimen numbers sent when requested. The Editor and Publisher are determined to do everything in their power, still farther to deserve the encouragement of the Christian public, and to make The Guardian acceptable and profitable to its readers. The seventh volume will appear with VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS; with new and clear type, and heavy white paper-much superior to that heretofore used. The January number will be embellished with a fine steel engraving. The Monthly Retrospect will be omitted, and its space occupied by matter like that of the other part of the Magazine. TERMS ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR-IN ADVANCE. Any one who sends us five sub scribers, with 35 cash, will receive one copy for one year, gratis. Twelve copies will be sent for $10; twenty-five copies for $20. ADDRESS THE PUBLISHER, JOHN H. PEARSOL, Lancaster, Pa |