Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-17

YEARSlN0s.
Beck Ger the lapse Of ysars. 4
nv spirit wings its Hight,
Back 10 the vanished years,
Nv sad thoughts turn tonight.
Dreams that long since ended,
Hopes that ere now have ded,
Sweet. yet sadly blended,
With memories Of the dead.
Returning from out the past.
Each bringing . regret
How vain, they cannot last
'tvcrs better 10 forget,
Oh day-drsams Of iifs's morn,
" csne 70 ~ AGAIN
Visions Of glory born
Why, Why this strange. sad pain
All I know thsa never
Lilies morning s'ss eomss back
Onee gone, gone forever
Time hurries on bis track,
Onward, ever o. inward,
nenths, seasons. years rsi. by.
Still Ne onward-onward-
Yes. onward sill We die.
Chainlsss soul wishis mel
Why back yard dost1hou roam
nesvea lies before. thee =
0od promises . home.
There stIast thou'Itr rest thee,
Nest from the worid's;mad strife
And II God hath blsst thee,
why mourn what men call life,
There ere nov seyss Presbyterian minis>
tcrs on the Psciic within . space Of seven
ty.six miles.
Rev. Dr.. Nsdal, Of Philadelphia. base &C.
cepted = professonShip in the Drew Thso
logical Seminary.
The Bostca Pilot says the man is 10 day
living who will see . majority Of the people
on the American continent Roman Catholic.
wAldensians support twenty-five mission,
aries beyond their own valleys,or more than
one fos every thousand Of their own mum.
Der, Fous more are 70 be ordained soon.
The Fi1h Avenue New York; Psesby-
terrain church has given DR.. Rice, their late
pastor, $4,000, besides one years salary.
$4,000. Or. Rice has bought . farm Ia
New Jersey.
The thirteenth conference Of the Wssley.
an Msthodists. or Eastern British America,
was held u Halifax recently. II reports .
decrease in members the past year Of four
hundred and nine.
The Advsutists in . town in Maine are
preaching the immediate ~dsstructiou Of the
world, and q the same time are erecting .
house Of worship substantial enough 70 last
. hundred yssrs.
The Same God WHO moulded the sun and
kindled the stars watches ths Digit Of the
insect. He who balances the clouds end
hung the earth upon nothing notices the
fall OF tho sparrow. lie who gave Saturn
his rings aud placed the moon like Q ball Of
silver in the broad arch Of heaven gives the
sAso LAT eoa 6Als,AA~ Ant ncA sna1> ek> Aea-
tan sun TO nourish the violet. And the
sams being notices the praises Of the shc.>
ubim and The prayers Of the litsle child.
In 1870, there were only two Methodist
churches in Newark, N. J.,-lIAlsey and
Franklin street churches-with Q member.
| ship Of about seven hundred. Now they
have thirteen churches, several Of them
very splendid, and over three thousand
eight hundred members.
Education 10 . companion which no miss
fortune can dcpress, no cline destroy, no
enemy ALLEVIATE, no despotism enslase. Al
nome . friend, abroad an introduction. in
society an ornament. Il chas,sns vice, IT
guides virtue, it gives grace and governs
ment to genius. Without il what Is man 7
A splendid slave, vacillating between the
dignity Of On Intelligence derived from God,
and the degradation Of brutal passions.
In an address before the London Young
Mems Christian Association, DIR. Alfred
Dean, OF Canterbury. one OF the most learn
ed biblical critics in England. said IL will
say with full knowledge OF most Of what
has been done, both here and abroad, to
attack the Holy Scriptures, that in my own
view, each one Of these attacks has but
strengthened the position Of the Christian
believer. | ann sec that one Of the de-
lenses has fallen"
Rev. Reed Williamson, formerly Of Fair
field, Jefferson Co, but recently Of the Blind
Asylum at Vinton. has accepted a call to
the pastorate of the Congregational church
at Toledo, Tama Co.
what labor needs the world oves is mind.
Intelligence expressed by the hand is skill
by morals, is character bv judgment, IL
enterprise and success.
A Chinese maxim say q, I'VE require foul
things of women Tnst virtue dwell in be
heart that modesty plsy on her brow tha'
swestness flow from her lips. and that in
dustry occapy her hand.
METHODIST MISSION TO SIrxA.- The Wash
ing,on correspondents Of the New York
Christian Airocate says that the exce,len,
Bishop Of the Methodist Church. who is nov
visiting the Pacific coast, will lose no time
in exploring the new Territory, with refer
ence to = Christian mission there withou'
delay. and adds: The first Post Oiice il
Russian America was established by III,
Department. this week. 1t is called 'Silka,
and John II Kinkhead is the Postmaster
Tho mail matter to 'Sitka' will be sent by
vessel from San Francisco. | learn tina
| quite . large emigration 10 the newly nc
| Quircd land has been commenced"