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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-14

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YOUTHS DEPARTMENT..
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ORIGINAL.
A city far-famed as headquarters of pork
A strait of old times, near the home of tn,
Turk;
a county seat high among the mountains o.
Penn;
A river for rafting that's used now and then
q river, the site of Imperial Rhome,
These initials, if rightly together they come
Will reveal you township on waters oi
Chest,
With honest industry contented and blest
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testimony Of a Prominent Physician

Dr.. J. T. Baker, skillful and widely
known physician of twenty years standing
lin Lancaster. Pa, gives his opinion of pop
|ular household remedy, in tie following let
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A GREAT MIsTAKB-The star in the
East that stood over Bethlehem was star
in the West, for the wise men came from the
East. a great mistake. But the Star Clio
thing store of j. j. Murphy. Clinton street:
Johnstown, is no mistake. He has lots of
cheap and good clothing.
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WITH Us.-We had the pleasure of tax
ing by the hand our old friend, T. Blair
Moore, Esq, recently of this place. now of
Pittsburg. He seems to enjoy existence in
the Smoky City" and is the same clever,
genial man as of yore. Many old friends
had the pleasure of greeting him /; the only
regret was the melancholy event which oc-
casioned his advent among u.s..
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ASTRONOMY. is an old science
Three thousand years ago Job spoke of :h
Pleiades, Orion, Arcturus, &c.-constella
tions still known, and older than Damascus
Leopold & Brothers. Oak Hall Clcthin
Store, is not SO old but it is old enough t
have the reputation of being one of the bes
clothing establishments in Johnstown.
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The chilling wind which blows. the fast
drifting SHOWS, the frost-better nose and
the cold, aching toes, reminds US that those
who need any hose, or any other kind oi
clothing or dress goods to protect them from
the iDclemency of the weather. should take
up their line of march for the far-fau:e ed and
not to be undersold cheap cash store of II
A. Shoemaker & Co, where the largest stock
and the lowest prices prevailing in Ebens-
burg are always to be found.
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GREAT BARGAINs.-hr. Edward Glass
announces in our paper to-day that he will
sell four Throshing Machines and a lot of
Sled SoleS at an unheard of reduction in
prices, and as he is man of his word. per-
sons needing such articles may depend upon
getting good bargains if they call upon him.
See the advertisement, and then see Mr..
Glass and the articles he has for sale.
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A DARIHG APPEAL-Philip of Macedon.
when intoxicated, condemned subject to
death. The subject appealed from Philip
drunk to Philip sober. When Philip got
sober he reversed his decision. We appeal
to any man to say whether l.. Cohen & Bro ,
New York Clothing Hall, has not the cheap
est clothing in Johnstown.
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DIED.-In Carrol!town. on Monday, 4th
inst, of consumption, Augustine Wilson aged
colored man who had been learning the bar
Der business in this place. and was much
esteemed by all our people for bis courteous
manners and blameess life. His remains
were inferred in the Catholic graveyard in
misplace on Tuesday. MAY he rest in peace
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perhaps, for religious as for secular pa
per. | remark then that Mrs. Macomb was
ardsntly attached to the simple forms and
doctrines of the Presbyterian Church. Till
she became infrm her carriage was never
absent from the church in which her father
had ministered for forty-three years. But
still she was liberal in her feelings towards
all Christians. She was remarkable for
truthfulness, conscientiousness and integrity.
She owed no one anything but love. The
humble were as welcome to her house as the
rich and exalted. She was never known to
slight an old acquaintance, however humble
might be the position of such person.
Without however descending to details, we
believe she is at rest in theparadise of God,
after suffering severe anguish for years,
which she bore with almost unparalleled
Christian patience. Her large funeral bore
witness = the estimation in which she was
held byall classes of the community. The
funeral services were perfo,&esa by the Rev.
Mr.. Coombs, assisted by the Rev. DR.. Hill,
Mr.. Bittenger, and Mr.. Butler.
T.B.B.
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Hearing Candidates.

Five ruinous results are stated by recent
contributor to the Congregationalist. Listen,
ing to numbefof preachers,before deci-
sion is reached creates fastidious taste J;
occasions long intervals without settlement;
causes divisions in the churches and con-
sequent bitterness and strife; i'll feeling to-
wards the successful candidate, and finally,
tits a dishonorable method to pursue towards
preachers, many of whom are not in mood
for this "coquetting," in which churches
now SO generally indulge.
Every one of the least discernment must
see that this is sensible way proposed by
the Congregational Quarterly: "never intro
duce the second man until it is settled that
the first is not acceptable to the people In
this way pastor may be secured with great
unanimity and with the happiest results"
The common practice of parishes now, is to
have number of competitors,-not real
candidates, but competitors-and the pulpit,
SO to speak, is knocked off to the best bid,
that is, to the most taking sermon. Smart
ness is the quality, above all others, which
seems to prevail, and he who can make the
best show Of pulpit pyrotechnics, generally
gains the day, while, perhaps, the bulk of
the rivals with which he is brought into COM
petition can show far brighter record as
successful winners of souls and true She
pherds of the flock. The admirable work
of Goulburn on Personal Religion, treating
of the low standard of piety, characteristics
sermons, like lectures, as being too often
ga spare dish of knowledge with the garni-
ture of amusement" with which an audi.
ence is "pleased and tickled." By pander-
ing to the worldliness and secularism found
in our churches, one may win sufrages to
himself, but cannothope to win souls to Christ.
Whatever on the part of the Church, in her
choice of preachers, ministers to this fas-
tiduous curiosity should be resisted, as in
the highest degree detrimental to her highest
prosperity.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
Sabbath Morning.

What a noise and hustle there is in the
family frequently when every body is get
ting ready to go to church on the morning
of the Sabbath. A thousand things have
then to be done, that ought to have been
attended to before. The children have all
to put on their Sunday clothes, and each
one of them has to ask mama where this
and that article can be found. The break
fast table has to be cleared away, the plates
and cups to be washed, and put in the cup
board Pocket handkerchief to be hunted
up, the shoes to be cleaned, and if the SER
want, who has that branch of duty to attend
to, is out of the way, or cannot find the
shoe-brush, the business of scolding com
mences, and every body gets into bad
humor before the hour of starting arrives.
All is hurry and bustle. The fear of getting
to church too late augments the disorder.
Sometimes the head of the household gets
into passion, makes use of harsh language,
calls one of his sons fool for contradicting
him, and threatens to whip another.
Such scene in pious family in the
morning of the Sabbath, is much to be re-
GREETED, and must be considered as badly
calculated to excite devotional feelings. 1t
will have a tendency to do more injury, than
any sermon can possibly do good. All the
arrangements for the Sabbath ought to be
made on the preceding day, so that there
may be peace and quietness in the family,
when its different members are preparing to
set off for the house of God. Yet this is
far from being always the case, especially
where so many preparations have to be made
of an extraordinary nature, before all the
children in the family are ready to take
their places in the vehicle that is to convey
them to the place of worship. Would it not
be we'll for the pastors of our churches to
admOnish their congregations of the evils,
as well as the inconvenience, that may result
from not diligently preparing for the duties
obligatory upon them on the Sabbath day ?
QUIETUs.
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Join the Church.

1t is delusion for any soul to think II
can fully enjoy the grace Of God and obey
the Saviours commands, and refuse to bt
connected with the visible Church of Christ
if the opportunity were afforded.
1t is the duty and the privilege of all tc
enjoy the fellowship of saints. Do not say.
81 do not know which Church l ought to
join, and therefore will not join any," Ga
where you feel most at home, where there
are congenial influences and surroundings
These different churches exist in harmony
with the divine plan and the human mind
They exist to j - Igsr2t tastes and in
tellectual preferences
Your Christian humility would forbid your
saying, 81 do not wish to join any church
because all are imperfect. t."
A certain minister met another who had
left the church because of its imperfection
" "What are you doing now?" said the form
er. 81 am looking for perfect Church,
was the reply. "Well," was the response
"you will never find it, for you would make
it imperfect by joining it."
So with you. But perhaps this is the very
plea you are urging, 81 am too imperfect
to enter into Church relationships" Blu,
We answer, the Church was never designed
for perfect beings. There would be nc
Church were that the prerequisite for mem
bership. The Church is school to disci.
pline and develop us. It's divine word, its
ministry, its ordinances, its sacraments, its
varied forms of Christian activity, are ALL
by the inworking of the Holy Spirit, to train
our earthly rudimentary life for the life to
come.
The Church of Jesus Christ can alone dc
this. 1t only is able "to present every man
perfect in Christ Jesus"
Come, then, you who are conscious that
you are full of faults, become earnest, con
secrated workers in the Church below, fight.
ing with sin within and without, that at the
last you may form part of "the Church
triumphant above, which is without fault be.
fore the throne of God"
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN,
Lean Hard.
7. B. B.

" Child of my love, lean hard,
And let me feel the pressure of thy care,
1 know thy burden, child 1 shaped it
Poised it in mine own handmade no proportion
In its weight to thine unaided strength
For even as laid it on, said,
Il shall be near, and while she leans on me,
This burden shall be mine, not hers;
So shall keep my child within the circling arms
Of mine own love- Here lay it down, nor fear
To impose it on the shoulder which uphOlds
The government OF worlds. Yet closer come
Thou art not near enough. would embrace thy care
So might feel my child reposing on my breast
Thou lowest me2 1 kHo'o it. Doubt not, then,
But loving me, LEAN HARD"
This sweet morsel was copied from the
scrap book of an select lady" who Gid not
know who was its author. And what does
it matter who wrote it? Its form is human,
but its spirit came from heaven. 1t is the
voice of the beloved speaking through the
experience of those who go up from the
wilderness leaning on his arm. 1t is part of
LQe OuuTCu u6dSuT6 VI sdCI0u oOHS-
which, whether collected in books of praise,
or hid away in private memorials of the
saints-causes one believing heart to re-
spond to another, and blends the melody of
the morning stars with the anthems of white
robed saints before the throne of the lamb.
Daughter of Zion, who goest about the city,
smitten, and wounded, and sick of love-or
hidest thyself like dove in the cleft of the
rock, hear the voice of thy beloved. If they
who keep the walls have taken away thy
veil, turn thy face into his bosom. If thou
art stript of earthly ornaments, cover thyself
with the skirts of his garments Put thy
withered arms around his neck. Thy Re-
deemer is thy true husband. Thou art the
bride of his eternal youth. In his eyes thou
art fairest among women, beautiful as Tir-
zah, comely as Jerusalem. 1t is has cross
and his yoke which thou dearest. Throw
thyself with thy burden, in the self aban-
donment of faith upon his breast, and when
thy heart and flesh fail, LEAN HARD.
II. j. V.
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Silent Forces.

Our farmers call this ga backward spring."
and yet what an amount of work God has
done already, and how quietly he has done
it Steadily and still the grass has grown
beneath our feet; noiselessly the buds have
opened into blossoms and leaves. Every
day, every hour of the day, there has been
progress; yet no haste, no tumult, no putting
of steam, no rattling and jar of machinery,
as in a human workshop. We say that the
trees and the plants grow, because this an
nual new creation is performed so quietly
and gently. But We know that every un-
folding leaf and upspringing blade manifests
the presence and the power of God. He is
there-he is working there. What we call
growth is merely the result of his wonderful
energy and skill 1t is no more indepen-
dent of him in the present than in the re-
motest past. He renews the face Of the
earth every spring just as he created all that
grows upon it at the first.
But is not one lesson of the spring-time
that of quietness in working? Should not
we especially in Christian labor, be still, and
steady, and patient, as our Master is? His
kingdom "cometh not with observation"
not with crying "lo here," and ''lo there"
1t is not to be built up with tumult and ex
citement, but rather like the first temple,
without noise of an axe or hammer. There
is no true work for God without faith, and
the tendency of faith is to tranquilize the
spirit-to inspire it with patient and hope
full energy. "He that believeth shall not
make haste"
Quietness has no affinity with laziness.-
1t is no more like the stagnant pond than it
is like the brawling torrent. 1t is rather
the gentle stream fertilizing the valley, Civ
ing drink to the focks and herds and sill
very beauty to the landscape, yet noiseless
as the sunshine or the dew. So should we
strive to bless the world and to glorify God.
|-Christian Herald.
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Are Ministers Hirelings 2

care you the man we've hired to preach
for US 2"
"No, sir; | am not.
81 beg your pardon; are you not the
minister?"
Yes, sir; l am pastor of the church
here; but do you really think have been
hired to preach for you?"
"Why, yes, sir; I was at the meeting
when the vote was taken to raise the money
Did you not come here expecting to receive
salary y?"
Certainly; and SO does the Governor Of
this State enter upon his duties expecting to
receive salary, but would you say that he
is hired to govern the State?"
"Not exactly"
"And the reason is just exactly this: the
Governor is elected to fill certain office,
and when you speak of him you think more
of his office than you do of his salary. You
do not hire him to do whatever you wish to
set him at, but you elect him to an office,
fixed beforehand and expressly defined in the
Constitution, and then you fix salary that
he may attend to his duties without embar-
rassment. The same is true of PASTOR
You do not hire him to do job of preach,
ing for you. You elect him to an office, or
dained by Christ and defined in the Consti
tuition of the Church, and then you affx a
salary that he may give himself wholly to
the duties of his Office"
"Your theory appears very well; butwhat
practical difference does it make?"
"Just this. When you hire man you
expect him to do as yOu say. When you
elect man to an Office you expect him to
do what the Constitution says. -1adings.
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similarity-the law which reconciles simili-
tude, the harmony of contrasts, in which
what is wanting on the one side finds Its
complement on the other; for,
"Heart with heart and mind with mind,
When the main fbres are entwined,
Through Natures skill,
May even by contraries be joined
More closely STILL"
Such was the exquisite companionship OF
the sexes as they were represented by our
first parents, and such, however they may
be momentarily disturbed, they will remain
as the ideal for all the generations of men
and women. Let woman repose her trust
in man, and then, lifting up her heart, she
may sing,
"Though Gods high things are not all ours,
Tis ours to look above;
All is not ours to have hold,
But all is ours to love-"
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE.

REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE.
The Auditing Committee reported, through
Mr. J. j. Gresham, as follows;
The Auditing Committee respectfully re-
port that they have examined the books and
accounts of Charles Gennet, the Treasurer
of the Assemblys Committee of Education,
and find them neatly and properly kept and
the disbursements sustained by proper
vouchers, showing balance from this fund
due to the Treasurer of six hundred and
sixty two 52-1O0 dollars (S66252.
Your committee have also examined the
books and accounts of Charles Gennet,
Treasurer of the Assembly'S Committee of
Publication, and find them neatly and pro-
perly kept and the disbursements sustained
by proper vouchers, leaving in his hands, OF
thus fund, balance of twenty two hundred
and forty-four dollars and sixty six cents,
(S2,54466.) All of which is respectfully
submitted. J. J. GRESHAM,
Chairman.
The Auditing Committee respectfully re-
port, that they have examined the books and
accounts Of Rev. James Woodrow, Treasur-
er of the Assembly's Committee of Susten-
tation and find them neatly and properly
kept, and the disbursements sustained by
proper vouchers, leaving balance from
this fund in the hands of the Treasurer, Of
eleven thousand and twenty-six 97-1OO dol
lars ($11, ,026.97.)
Your committee have also examined the
accounts of Rev. James Woodrow, Treas
urer of the Assembly's fund for the support
of disabled ministers, and widows and or
phans of deceased ministers, and respect
fully report that they find them correct, and
the disbursements sustained by proper vouch-
ers, showing balance of sixteen hundred
and thirty dollars 96-1OO cents Isl, $685.
of this fund in the hands of the Treasurer
Your committee further report that they
have examined the books and accounts of
Rev. James Woodrow, Treasurer of the AS
sembly's Committee of Foreign Missions,
and find them neatly and properly kept, and
the disbursements sustained by yproper vouch-
ers, with the exception of the last remittance
to the missionaries in the Indian territories
from which, there has not been time to
hear The appropriation was properly
made, and your committee have no doubt
that the charges are correct. The balance
due to the Treasurer from this fund is eight
hundred and seventy-eight 90-100 dollars,
($87S.9O.) j. J GRESHAM,
Chairman.
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The HEART may be engaged in little
business as much, if thou watch it not, as
in many and great affairs. A man may
drown in a little brook or pool, as we'll as
in great river, if he be down and plunge
himself into it, and put his head under
water. Some care thou must have, that
thou mayest not care. Those things that
are thorns indeed, thou must make hedge
of them, to keep out those temptations that
accompany sloth, and extreme want, that
waits on it; but let them be the hedge; suffer
them not to grow within the garden.-LeigA-
fOn
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into the garner of God.

into the garner of God.
Let ministers seek this holy JUNCTION from
on high, and if they do not see the immedi
ate results of their labors, let them know,
that this labor in the Lord is not in vain.-
Let the church pray, "Lord, increase the
number of such men"
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FOR THE CEsrRAL PnEssrrEnIAS.
10! I AM WITH YOU ALWAY!
Matt. xviii: 90.

Il am with yoa r-words of cheer,
Scatter doubt and vanish fear
Sailing down hfe's ocean tide.
Can we sink with such guide?
Thro' the night and tbro' the day,
Jesus with us all the way!
When the storm is raging high,
Shadows spreading Ger the sky
When our hearts in terror think
Life's frail barque must surely sink
Harkl across the waters dread,
at is I-be not afraid"
lie is with us on hfe's sea,
As He was on Gahlee;
And when angry billow roll
Restless waters Ger the soul,
How they soften to a rill
As He wispers, Peace, be still"
" R0NOAAf 0A~ eAAbu AGaA
When | she'd each secret tear2--
Art thou with mo whsa-I pray
Many, many times day?
r en- when shadows seem between,
Jesus, art thou with me then?
Art Thou with me when weep?
When | wake and when sleep?
With me morning, noon and night
In the darkness-in the light?
Art Thou with me every day,
Leading me along the way2
Yes; / know Hes ever near,
Tho / do not always hear
Jesus calling thro' the storm,
81 am with you-fear no harml
Tho the waves beat high and wild,
am with you-hush, my ehildl1
When my faith is waxing weak,
May / hear my Saviour speak
Words of eomfort-words of cheer,
g i am with you-do not fearl'-
Jesus, lead me by the hand,
Til / reach the beforehand
When esrth-shsdows fade from view
When | breathe last sdieu-
When / near the Rivers brink,
Jesus viii not let me sink;
He viii bear me Ger the tide,
Til tread the other side,
Then III see Him "face to face"
In His heavily dwelling place
y 26th, 1869
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How OFTEN you come to the house of God,
and see the minister preaching of eternal
things, but your heart is full of cares, and
plans, and pleasures One thing is plain,
that thOrn8 and wheat cannot grow on the
same spot of ground; so that, if you will
keep to your thorns, you must ! urn with
them.-McGeyne.
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GoD LIVES: what a compass of thought
and consolation in that one expression; and
akin to it is the language of Christ, "Be-
hold, / am alive for evermore. Die who
will, Christ lives. One of his most fire.
quently repeated titles is, "the living God; !"
and, dwelling as we do amidst the tombs, it
is one of his most comforting ones.-James.