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"pedant," pretender, '-"fit for the
lunatic asylum" "-"his name is branded
for ignorance and audacity, "igno-
rant, presumptuous and impudent y
Well, if such-a slush of praise gushes
forth when neither the outside of the au-
thor, nor the inside of his book had been
seen, what may we not expect when Mr..
Christian Press becomes well acquainted
with both! The Examiner and CarOni
Gle has also noticed the book, but with
out any high-toned comnendation of the
author, or the book; for unhappily (as
Sidney Smith and the Christian Press
would say,) he was hanpered by having
previously read the book. Criticism is
limited to two points: |. The affirmation
that dip and immerse mean the same
thing, and II. The denial that BAPTIzo
includes only condition. This ailirma-
ton carries with it burden which if all
the Baptist shoulders. on earth were put
under it to bear it =, they would be
crushed by the intolerable weight. The
denial is a negation of proposition no.
where to be found in Classic Baptism.
The National Baptist, with more courte-
sy of tone in general, and with more ap
probation of the merits of the case also
nouices the book. This critic too tries
to join together dip and immerse, words
which Hebrew and Greek and Latin and
Anglo Saxon have put asunder. The
attempt shows how fatal their disjunc-
ton is felt to be in its bearing on the
Baptist theory. But while their essen
tial unity is affirmed it is admitted that
"Mr. Dale has established difference
in use between BApTo and BAPTIzo. He
has, also, brought clearly out that BAp-
TITO does not of itself involve the lifting
out from the fluid of that which is put
in" These two admittedly proved points
are the points on which the whole of
Classic Baptism turns. What Baptists
have said of the book in six months is
not much; but what they have said and
what they have not said, is full of mean
ing. The next six months will undoubt-
edly furnish US with more and more
elaborate criticisms of Classic Baptism
from that quarter. xxx.
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Joan Waste.

Among many who gloriied God by
suffering martyrdom in the reign of
Queen Mary, Joan Waste, poor wo-
man, deserves never to be forgotten.-
Though blind from her birth, she learned
at an early age to knit stockings and
sleeves, and to assist her father in the
business of rope-making; and always
discovered the utmost aversion to idle
ness and sloth. After the death of her
parents she lived with her brother; and
by daily attending the church, and hear
ing divine service read in the vulgar
tongue, during the reign of king Ed
ward, became deeply impressed with re-
ligious principle. This rendered her de-
sirous of possessing the word of God;
so that at length, having by her labor
earned and saved as much money as
would buy New Testament, she pro-
cured one; and as she could notsread it
herself, got others to read it to her, es-
pecially an old man, seventy years OF
age, the clerk of a parish in Derby, who
read chapter to her almost every day.
She would also sometimes give penny
or two (as she could spare) to those who
would not read to her without pay. BY
these means she became well acquainted
with the New Testament, and could re-
peat many chapters without the book, and
daily increasing in sacred knowledge,
exhibited its influence in her life, till,
when she was about twenty-five years OF
age, she was condemned for not believ-
lug the Popish doctrine Of Christ's bod
lily presence in the Sacrament, and burned
at Derby, August l, 1556.-TOwntey' s
Biblical Records.
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Faith.

What is faith? l have never heard
but three definitions that satisfied me-
One of course, stands upon level intin-
itely above our poor criticism, that is,
the inspired definition of the Apostle,
that "faith is the substance" that is, the
confident realization "of things hoped
for, the evidence" that is conviction
reaching to demonstration. "of things
not seen." But there is another defini-
ton which I have often spoken of,
which from its exceeding simplicity, has
thoroughly satisfied my mind; it is the
one of the old Scotch woman, who heard
persons disputing long as to what faith
was. She answered: "Well, to me it
seems very simple thing: it is to tax
God at his word" And yet there is an
other definition which struck my own
mind very much: it is that of an Irish
child. l had this from the lips of mis-
sionary who was examining the school.
He was asking what faith was, and one
child said, "Trust," while another said,
"Belief," and so on. At last he saw a
thoughtful girl, and she said, 81 think
sir, 1 can tell you what it is" "What
is it, nv child?" he asked. "It is the
Holy Ghost said she, "moving the soul
to lean upon Jesus Christ" Think, my
friends, that is a beautiful definition of
faith-the Holy Ghost moving the soul
to lean upon Jesus Christ.-Reu. b. Ii.
Bickersteth.
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Pardon for Omissions.

DIR. Samuel Johnson, writing to his
mother, says: -
"You have been the best mother, and
I believe the best woman in the world.
1 thank you for your indulgence to me,
and l beg forgiveness of all l have done
ill, and all that / have omitted to do weu.
So in the prayer he composed at the
same time:
"Forgive me whatever ldye done un-
kindly to my mother, and Whatever L
haze omitted to do kindly"
There is a deep meaning in this. Our
offences against against God and our fel-
low-mon arc FAR greater in the omission
of duties than in the commission Of sins.
Let any one think it over faithfully, and
see if the weight of condemnation does
not rest there.
And how much point in the expression
-"omitted to do kindly" We might
often at least-almost as well not speak
the truth at all, as to speak it not Gin
love-" so it may often happen that an act
in itself eminently proper has dreadful
omission about it, simply because it is
not done kindly. What is charity, how
ever bountifully bestowed, if sympathy
be wanting? 1t is often positive insult.
Without pursuing the hint farther, let
each one search for the catalogue of what
he has left undone, and strive for bet
ter spirit and better life.
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Staying from Church to Read.

Some stay away from Church to read
They say they can find better religious
thinking and teaching in their books than
in any of the pulpits near them. Sup
pose they can. Do they get the better
teaching? Are they really at home for
purposes of religious culture? Are they
actually growing better; more godly, by
this reading which keeps them from
Church? Let them be honest with them
selves, and see if this is not fimsy ex-
cuse for spending their Sundays, not in
mere religious reading, but over all sorts
of books. Even if they give their Sun
days up wholly to religious reading, they
have greatly mistaken the aim of public
Sabbath services if they think it can be
thus met at home.
God expressly commands us to ''rever-
ence His sanctuary" to "lift up our
hands in His sanctuary" and promises
to come unto us and bless us there. We
should go to Church to worship; to wor'
ship publicly and unitedly, as well as te
receive instruction from the preacher
Would an Israelite have been held blame
less who never went to the temple wor
ship because he had a roll of the law a
home? But the Church service is, in {
sense, our temple worship. No other ap
pliance of religious culture can take it
place. Abolish all Church services, an'
YOU abolish Christianity. He who stay
regularly away from Church is doing wha
little he can to introduce beathenism.-
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The Cross.

We beg permission to copy paragraph
from letter written to us by great
sufferer. She says: I have been think
ing much here of late of bearing patiently,
and glorying in the cross, and l have been
striving to bear that laid upon me with
out murmuring, and feel that my dear
Saviour helps me. I feel that cit is
good for me that | have been afflicted, "
that might learn Gods precepts, for
"before | was afflicted l went astray,
but "now / love his law" have never
loved the Bible and had half the light
upon the great subjects of which it treats,
as have in the last two years, and l
think / never would have taken the de-
light do in spiritual things, had it not
been for my long illness and my disease,
which keeps me almost face to face with
death.
feel that this Christening is bringing
forth some "peaceable fruits" because
| am Exercised thereby" that am able
to glory somewhat in the cross. l have
had some heavy ones to bear here lately,
yet I believe they were laid upon me for
my good; that they have brought me unto
closer communion with God. And, though
at first shrink, shudder, and sometimes
falter, and even fall, beneath my load,
yet from the earth l cry incessantly to
my Saviour for strength to sustain it as
unmurmuringly as he bore the cross for
me; and then l am enabled to rise and
walk tremblingly beneath its weight
By and by it seems to grow lighter, for
Jesus smiles on me, and helps to bear it
up, with his invincible hand till at length,
by the beautiful law of compensation, 1T
becomes my support-it sustains me, and
lifts me nearer to Jesus! so near that he
seems to bend above me, to wipe the dews
of agony from my brow, and whisper:
"Let not your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid" Then, O, the blessed
cross! it grows dear to me, because it
raised me to Jesus, and | almost fear to
have it removed, lest I should fall away
from him! I say, with my schole heart,
Nearer, my God nearer to thee,
Zen though it be the cross that raiseth me
Nearer my God nearer to thee.
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H y m n S .

Tha0 End Useful hymns
are sadly lacking N literary merit has
been cause of frequent regret with
many. Those, however, who are dis
posed to depreciate on this account hymns
which have been long used will do well
to take into account the following sug-
gestions from an article in the C0ntem-
porary Review:
"Far above the mere literary interest of
the subject, however, must be reckoned
the undoubted comfort which the devout
in all ages have derived, and will surely
continue to derive, from sacred hymns.
"The manner in which they imprint
themselves on the memory, and transmit
the sustaining hopes and promises of re
ligion in the midsto of the trials, Affections,
and difficulties of this life; the thought
of the thousands, ay, millions, of souls,
which have passed from habitual delight
in hymns below to the paradise of which
they spake, and for which they aided, in
no small degree, in preparing them, must
not only prove to us the value of our
own hymnals, but make us largely toler-
ant of the uncouth expressions, the faul-
ty poetry, the overstrained language, the
prosaic dulness, which we have full right
to reject from our own use.
"The Moravian preface remarks, with
simple truth, of certain compositions
which could not be much commended,
Even these little hymns have got their
lovers, who would be sorry to lose them
all at once;' the words may apply to
many in our own books, the poetic excel
lence of which is small.
"Moreover, we seem by means of hymns
to approximate most nearly in spirit to
communion with all that are departed in
the faith of Christ.
cit is no small thing to know that they
were sung by St. Hilary, St. Ambrose,
St. Isidore, St. Bernard, St. Aphrem the
Syrian monk, Prudentius, or venerable
Bede; that popes, emperors, kings,
queens, princes and princesses, cardinals
and bishops, the politician, the soldier,
the iurist, the burgomaster, have contri-
buted their devout strains for our edi6ca-
ton and comfort; that this hymn sup
ported the faith of martyr, and this the
sinking spirit of missionary; and con-
stantly to observe that the last family
murmured words of statesmen, physicians
and theologiaus were drawn from simple
hymns. Long after the hand which
traced them has been cold in death, W,
find fragments of hymns hidden ava.
among the treasured secrets of love-
parent, sister, or child; we retain, indeli
bly, fixed on our mind, the accents il
, which fayorite hymns were recited b
voices hushed in this world for ever
Every parish priest, too, knows how tn
imagination of the poor and illiterate fas
tens upon hymns, and draws from them
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
Do Not Forsake the Negro.

A correspondent writing on the great subject of
instructng this class of our population, presents
the following just thoughts:
But my principal object in writing is
to point out our duty to that numerous
class of our fellow creatures. They are
without preachers and teachers, and they
mast be taught or 10Th s'aases WIN feel
the consequences. Let us stir up our
latent energies, and not neglect our duty
to them if we would have their confidence
and the blessing of God. Let US get up
Sunday Schools for them all over the
land, and furnish them with books, and
urge our sons and daughters to take on
the harness. Let us preach and pray
more for them, and with the blessing Of
God imbue them with the spirit of the
Gospel and we need not fear the conse-
quences. God in his wise providence has
put them at our doors and in our fam-
lies, and will hold us responsible as their
guardians and friends. Charleston Pres
bytery says: " Stimulus to renewed la
bors among the colored people has been
impaired not only by the persistence of
numbers in the churches of which they
have ever formed a component part, but
especially by the deliberate return of
many from the misguidance of false
teachers, understanding neither what
they say, nor whereof they affirm. -
Though they are without education,
they generally have good hard common
sense, and only lack for information to
Judge correctly. If then we will do our
duty they will soon see through the dis
guises of designing demagogues and false
prophets, and lean upon those who speak
the truth. Let us pity their ignorance,
and not be too hasty in despising and dis
cardipg them. Christ says: Learn Of
me, for l am meek and lowly in heart. y
God may have sent all these trials upon
us to humble our pride, curb our passions,
and save our souls. Let US "Consider
the rod, and him that hath appointed
it, and then we may boldly say with
David, "God is our refuge and strength
very present help in trouble. There.
fore will lot we fear though the earth be
removed, and the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea" J.
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You see that both Harvey and his wife
are dead in Bombay. Atheism and Uni
versalism are gaining ground in this coun-
try, especially in our cities. We that
are old may not live to see it, but they
who survive us will witness wonderful
scenes both in Church and State in this
our beloved country. We are evidently
fastening to crisis; and so is the World
But the Lord reigneth. Let the earth
rejoice, for though clouds and darkness
are around about him, justice and Judg-
ment are the habitation of his throne.
Be faithful. Be diligent. BE humble
and persevering. As you stand alone,
great responsibility rests upon you, Ar
kansas may owe much to your faithful and
wise counsels and exertions. Continue to
call aloud for help. But whether it comes
or not, labor with all your might to stem the
torrent and to advance the cause. Be
ware OF declining into lukewarmheSS anu
a secular spirit: Stirup the gift that is
in thee. Give attendance to reading, ex-
hortation and prayer. Continue in them,
and give thyself wholly to these things.
Behold the Judge is at the door.
There are many ways of doing good.
Use them all as far as you can. Circu
late, by loan, good books. Subsidze the
press. Get pious printer to come and
publish a religious paper.
1 shall say nothing of the effect which
this letter produced upon my mind, but
only ask, may not theological professors
of the present day, and ministers of ex
perience, receive hint from the above to
strengthen the hands and cheer the hearts
of their younger brethren, especially
those who stand on the out-posts of
Zion? *.
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PENITENTIAL.

How shall this soul of mine
Before Thy holy shrine,
o, thou Immaculate, Divine, appear.
Where angels vail their faces in despair
With what oblations sweet
Before thy merey-seat
Can l Thy presence meet, or dare draw near
All clothed in guilt and shame
Lost both in fact and name
How can hope to find acceptance therel
Ny God l come to thee,
In sad sincerity,
With deep cOntrition and abasement bare;
Grant, Father, unto me,
Thy loving Spirit free,
So shall turn and flee
From every Aeshly lust and sinful snare.
Once more thy temple-gate
My soul shall seek, and wait
To 6nd once more blest acceptance there
Thy ways, not mine, . God
Thy will, not mine Thy rod
In mercy spare, nor let thine anger burn.
Starved with the husks of sin,
Thy peace once mor&to win,
Thy love to enter in,s
NY soul in anguish for its home doth yearn
With weeping, straining eyes,
Now stripped Of every guise,
Fsin would my soul arise
Repentant-aud to thee, o Lord,
TRY PRODIGAL RETURN!
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Vol. 3.---NO. Is.

in a we'll nigh supernatural manner, spir-
itual food which is dimly perceptible to
any but themselves. The concentration
of all these powerful associations upon
hymnology invests the humblest and most
unpublished hymn book with little coro-
net of sanctity; somewhere within its
pages it is certain to contain the key
note to the heart of him who opens it
even at random"
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He is contributing his influence towards
secularizing his community. If his way
was universal, irreligion would be domi-
nant, and the nation would slowly sink
back into an atheistic barbarism
ssh Visitor.
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THE LESSON FROM THE EPIsTLE To
PHILEMoN.-The lesson of all others from
this Epistle is, that we should carry into
the concerns of private life the courtesy
and the Christian spirit here shown by
the Apostle; that we should talk to one
another, argue with one another, write
letters to one another, not as men of the
world, but as disciples of Christ; not as
Piny, but as St. Paul; remembering
whose we are, and whom we serve; and
that our religion is to be a light shining
before men to show forth the glory of
Him who hath redeemed us by Christ.
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EVERY hour, life's sands are sliding
from beneath incautlous feet, and with
sins fatal flower in the. unconscious hand,
the triaer goes to his doom. The re,
quiem of each departure is an echo OF
the Saviour's question: "What shall a
man give in exchange for his soul!
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1867-11-20

MEN change, but truth never. The
sweep of time bears on its surface a
thousand floating things, but in its calm
and tranquil depths lie unmoved the
pearls and diamonds which beauty covets
and wisdom labors to secure.
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IT may not be in your power to excel
many people in riches, honors or abilities ;
but you may excel thousands in goodness
of heart. Hither turn your ambition.
Here is an object worthy of it.
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P1THY, BUT TRuE,-Elder Swan used
to say that if the doctrine of universal
salvation be true, the Bible ought to read:
''Wide is the gate, aad broad is the way
which leads to heaven, and every body
goes there; strait is the gate, and narrow
is the way that leads to hell, and you
can't find it if you try
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The greatest thoughts, it has been
said, spring from the heart; but the max
i'm is far more true with respect to the
noblest actions.
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ALL words in European languages
which express forgiveness imply free gift.
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SOLDIER, loyal man, remember that n.
Democracy which asks your vote has had
Bnck Pomeroy stamping the S:s,s !. :.
standard bearer; and that this Brick Pomeroy
declares OF Abraham Lincoln that .shis &C.
cursed memory will never be forgotten While
the English language is read or wri,tsp:,, and
that generations yet unborn will sbuad.,
and ask in astonishment why such 4 mon.ter
vas permitted to live month in the Pre.;.
dental chair"
nemsmoer. also, that this same Democratic
eaamp'oa calls Jsd. Davis "the noblest man
81 our country and sge." And that II m.
70 '0's romeroy the Democracy of Keotuk
~ me largest and most en,husias,;c audi.
city. As1 IN tnis
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-01

tbs Valley train this morning leaves here
ct $50 O'Clock. The regular passenger train
down, passes Pennington few minutes after
2o'clock p. m. The freight train down pass
IS Pennington between and clock, ar,
irving at Keokuk at o'clock This latte,
train, We believs, has . passenger car At.
tAched.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-01

A WESTERN New York paper wants II .
ladies to play base ball, maintaining that it is
worth twice ~ much Is this insipid, Amsn.
da-Anbella game called 'Crow-K,' which is
nothing but mighty poor kind of billiards
on the grass"
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SrvEY's HIsToRY at Carter l. Co. ..

uroS the death of Mr.. Colby, Register o.
the Treasury, our well>known townsman, Col
Jno. A. Graham. was appointed Acting Reg
Ster until the place shall be regularly filled
If that DO BY the appointment Of Col. Ora,
ham himself, there is certainty that the Office
will be we'll filled.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-01

TOWNSHIP TIcKErs.-We hope our friend.
in the several townships will nominate q,
once their township tickets and send them in
in time to be printed with the State and Coun
y Tickets. Efficient and popular local can
didates do much to aid the cause 1t large. B,
prompt in getting your tickets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-01

FoR his eallantry and efficiency Is sol
der and an officer, Captain ALI. Roberts, the
Republican candidate for Sheriff, was pre-.
scented with $500 sword BY the men Of hi.
company at the close of the war. Heis hello
in the highest esteem BY all his comrades
Asgood citizen as he was = brave soldier
the people Of Lee county will reward gallant
yand give themselves Trustworthy and ca
paole officer, BY making him Sheriff BY their
y0taa