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Zion in Mace. v: 81: vi: 60; vii SO. etc.
to denote the Temple mount alone, exclu-
sive of any other part of the city, even of
the Macedonian Akra itself? Had Zion
been where the fancy of the monks and
pilgrims of the middle ages has placed it,
it seems altogether impossible to account
for the real Zion, had such it been. losing
suddenly its proper name and transferring
1t to another mount on the opposite side of
Jerusalem, and separated from itby deep
intervening valley. But assume that Mt.
Zion was so close to the northwes: corner
of Mount Moriah, as according to jose
plus description of the Macedonian Akra
to 'adjoin to, and overlook the Temple"
(Ant. xii /: 9-3, compare also Mace. xiii ;
50, and all difficulty disappears. To the
eye they would seem almost to form one
continuous line; and when Mount Zion,
once so holy, had now been desecrated by
the long occupation of Macedonian idola-
tiers, and was at length RACED to the ground
and obliterated; and the very site on which
it had stood joined on to Mount Moriah,
the name with it would most naturally be
transferred to the sacred Temple mount,
and by patriotic writer like the author of
Maccabees, be refused in his narrative to
the desecrated citadel, to which up to that
time it had properly belonged.
The second difficulty which has OCCASION
ed so much perplexity to commentators ::
How could Mount Zion be said, in Psalm
Xviii: 2, to be "On the sides of the north, P"
in like manner disappears.
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Sunnessful Earninn,

In his first paper on "What I Know of
Farming" Mr.. Greeley relates the follow
ing:
An energetic farmer bought, some twen-
ty-fve years ago, large grazing farm in
Northern Vermont, consisting of some $50
acres, and costing him about $4,000. He
had small stock of cattle, which was all
his land would carry; but he resolved to
increase that stock by at least ten per cent.
per annum, and so to improve his land, by
cultivation, fertilizing, clover, ETC., that it
would amply carry that increase Fifteen
years later, he sold out farm and stock for
$4,000, and emigrated to the West. l
did not understand that he was a specially
hard worker, but only good manager,
who kept his eyes wide open, let nothing
go to waste and steadily devoted his ener-
gies and means to the improvement of his
stock and his farm.
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ReIiqion as an Institution

Rufus P. Stebbins, d. D., says: Religion
is not a sentiment simply, it is also an in
stitution. As the vine must have the trel-
lis which man builds, of the tree which
God builds for It's support and fruitage, so
religion must have its institutions and tenn
Piles built by man or God for its further
ance and perfection. The groves were
Gods first temples. Ere man learned to
hew the shaft and lay the architrave, and
spread the roof above them, in the darling
wood, amidst the cool and silence, he knelt
down and offered to the AIightiest solemn
thanks and supplication. The tent on the
plain of Mamre, the heaped stones on
which Jacob poured the oil demonstration,
the hill top rock on which the frstling of
flock or herd could beOffered; the taberna-
Gle consecrated in the wilderness, filled
with the splendors Of the Shekinah; the
temple on Moriah flaming with gold, paw
ed with precious stones, inhabited by the
Overshadowing cherubim; the Parthenon
GROWING the Acropolis, the beauty ofwhose
architecture has charmed and challenged
all ages the world renowned cathedral.
pinnacled with statuary and reverberatins
with the organs peal and the song of the
multitude-all these testify that religion
seeks outward expression in places, monu-
ments, edifces.
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A Mothers Influence,

How touching is this tribute Of Hon. T
H. Benton, to his mothers influence -
My mother asked me never to use tobac.
co | have never touched it from that time
to the present day. She asked me not tC
gamble, and l have never gambled; can.
not tell who is losing in games that are be
ing played. She admonished me, too, ag
ainst hard drinking, and whatever capaci
ty for endurance | have at present, ant
whatever usefulness | have attained thro
life, | have at ributed to having complied
with her pious and correct wishes. Wher
was seven years of age, she asked me no
to drink; and then | made resolution o
total abstinence; and that I have adhered
to it through all time, 1 owet my mother
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Woodstock

In a recent issue the Rural New Yorker
gives the following sensible advice to the
managers of agricultural societies:
at is about the time of the annual meet
ings of Agricultural Societies, and plans
are to be laid for the coming campaign,
This subject of who shall deliver the adj
dress is to be considered. Choose the man
who is best known in the country as a sue
cessful farmer, and whose success Is due to
his good, straight common sense and IN
dustry. Let him talk in his own plain
way as a christian, brother, and farmer.
Advise him not to go in for 'highfalutin'
Let him give good, practical advice, and
tell his neighbor how he does things, and
what he has discovered to be the farmers
needs. 1t may be said he will not draw
which is equivalent to saying that the
country has more natural born fools
among its farming population than 1t Is
entitled to! If fairs are to be made profit
able in the best sense, the more meat, with
nutrition in it, that can be concentrated IN
an annual address the better. If it Is ex-
pected to get such nutrition out of poll
tician, or a professional lecture-monger,
there will be great disappointment. What
would be thought Of a Manufacturers As
sociation of any sort which, at its annual
meeting for the exhibition of the products
of the skill and capital Of its members, and
for the discussion of their specific interests
should send for and listen to some spout
ing politician, or silver-tongued sentimen-
talist, who has no knowledge of, or interest
in, the object of the organization? Such
organizations, so far as we have observed
select some one of their own members with
reputation for superior sagacity, for ex-
act and extended knowledge and capable
of giving wholesome advice upon the in
terests involved in the specific industry
So should farmers"
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To Keep Eggs for a year.

A young reader, Master A. j. Hall, of
Warrensburg, Mo-, sends US the following
plan for preserving eggs adopted by his
mother which he thinks is the cheapest
and best yet published:
Il gathered the eggs in early summer,
and filled the steamer with them. then
mother poured a tea-kettle of hot water
over them. | then packed them in an
earthen jar, first layer of salt, then lay
er of eggs, packed closely, little end down,
then another layer of salt, and so on until
the jar was full, finishing off with thick
layer of salt Eggs thus packed will keep
fresh year or more,a
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Live for the Eternal World.

once heard minister's that when he
was a lad, going by an insane asylum, a
young emaciated female stretched her bony
hand through the iron grating, and called
out to him in startling tones, "Young man |
Live for the eternal worldl Live for the
eternal worldp These words" said he,
"never were efaced from my mind, when
| grew up they kept ringing in my ears"
In all probability they were one of the
means that God used to induce him to con-
secrate himself to the service of his Ma
kerr God can use even the insane to call
us to our duty. What more appropriate
words could be sounded in the ears of a
slumbering church than these, Live for
the eternal worldP-Advent Herald.
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The Sanref Gnndness of God.

If you have not experienced it, you can
have no sympathy with the words here
written. But think Have you not exper-
fenced a thousand times the joy of the Sc
cret goodness Of God?
You make no public mention of it. No
prayer from pulpit or family goes up from
lips that whiten at the thought of what
might have been but for that goodness.
You never heard a saint or sinner rise
before his fellow men and say, 40 God
Thou knowest how near | was to this or
that great iniquity how my feet went
close to the verge of murder, or theft, or
other SIM how | rolled in my heart from
day to day the wicked wish that my neigh
Dor, my rival in trade, might fail, or do
something to forfeit the good opinion of
his fellows; how I envied, how / hated,
how l plotted, how | went close to theft on
my friends vineyard"
No For none of these things do men
give public thanks.
They are the secret prayers that surge
up from the heart. Which prayers God
alone is witness to-if, indeed, men are
thankful enough to utter them, even in
that deep confessional.
Now, how many times has God exercised
his secret goodness toward you, and you,
and you? What one of you all can say, 81
know it not"
What one of you cannot remember a
thousand narrow lodges on which your feet
have wandered, and over which you had
plunged, had not the secret goodness OF
God snatched you at the last instant?
/ More than this. Have you not sinned
have you not committed crimes, or what
the world would have called crimes had
you been found out by the world, and the
secret goodness hid you from the eyes o.
your fellow men?
Are you an officer in a public institution
I care not whether it be tract society
orphan asylum, Sunday school, bank Oh
railroad company-and do you not know
Of certain operations that, had they failed
would have put your name on the list o
defaulters?
Good man" you may be to the world
Widows and orphans may 90 to you ant
say, Here is my little all. We know tina
you will not risk it, and we trustit to you.
What if they knew you as you are VIVA
if they knew the times in which you hav
tempted God, and he has mercifully hidde
you!
Verify, how good is the Lord. The drop
of his mercy fall like the rain when on
hearts are parched and thirsty with the ft
, yer ofsin.
How sweet it is to feel that God love
not the creatures that man sees, and know
! and admits into the society of man; bl
that he loves us just as we are, because /
2 sees in US the seal of his Fatherhood; b,
r cause we have been committed to his keel
: ing by the Son; because his secret goo'
t ness has followed us all our days, an
= knows every shadow that has rolled
= thick volume over our throbbing hearts.
e How shall we show forth our gratituC
= for the secret goodness of God?
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Convincing Iodic.

An old negro preaching in Auburn few
evenings since, referring to the general
tendency of people to wish they had the
talents of somebody else, then they would
do great deal of good in the world, put
the case thus clearly: "What would the
hummin' bird do wild de eagles wings he
could sip de leastest sweet from no flower
And what could de eagle do wild de hum
min birds wirgs? he would kick de earth
all de time and nothin' else. Brederen
use de wings of faith God can glib you, and
God will care for both de eagles and de
hummin' birds flight"
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Women who are little over tired Just
because their lives are little over-full OF
unselfish cares and duties, and because too
many Others depend upon them are very
subject to fancy, in the reaction OF fatigue,
that their lives are of no value, and that
they are not wanted by any one on earth.
The remedy is to tell the patient that, as
she lies there, weak, tired, Frustrated and
useless, some one wants her for very love
of her, and cannot live without her
Good Heath.
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President Merriam of Ripon College,
Wis, preached Feb. 18th, in Boston, on
"The Religion of the Future" showing
that christianity is adapted to every ad-
vancement in society and all men:
at puts out his hand to man and speaks
of everything most interesting to him in
the present, and points to him to the more
interesting future life. Christianity has
also a peculiar element of power and infu-
ence in it, which assures it success-and
that is love. 1t appeals to the heart as
nothing else can. 1t is not an element that
no other religious system has, and not found
in philosophy or science. Christianity has
another popularity which no other system
has or ever could have-an ever living,
and interested, and active leader d
head. All great men men, founders OF
systems, of religion, or philosophy, or be-
nevolence, died and ceased to take an ac-
tive interest in their favorite systems. But
Christ ever liveth, and has ever promised
| to be ever with his disciples to the end OF
the world. If it is objected that he can be
seen only by faith, and this faith is notfelt
by unbelievers, they have what takes its
place as power-and that's the constant re-
currence of instances of conversion. An If.
religious, ungodly, proiane, and wicked
man suddenly ceases to do evil, learns to dc
well-becomes penitent, believing, pray.
ing, loving man-in fact, new creature
Such events are standing miracles They
supply to the bodily eye what miracles did
to those who lived when Christ walked OF
the earth. There is, therefore, no occa
sion for anxiety about the permanence anC
ultimate triumph of Christianity. Time.
may change, science may change, theology
may change, modes of stating the truths o
christianity may change; but christianity
in its essential elements will always remain
the same wonderful and wonderfully adapt
ed system to the wants of all men, in al
times and all conditions, and will ultimate
ly become the universal religion of man.
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'What is said of the mariner in respect
to his ship, that he always sails within foul
inches of death, that may be said of the
soul in relation to the body, that it is al
ways within foul inches of eternity. If the
ship splits, the sailor sinks; if our earthern
vessels break, the soul is gone, plunged
forever into the bottomless sea, and bank.
less ocean of eternity. This is the SOU
therefore that 1 desire to weep over, that
shall preposterously launch into the deer
before he knows whether he shall sink Oh
SWIM"
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Many life is lost by disease occasioned
by the noxious etfluvia arising from decay
ing vegetables into the room above. Sort
out and remove all half rotten potatoes,
turnips, etc, and throw them into the hog
pen-not for the hogs to eat, but because
there is the place for all such refuse. Then
sprinkle copperas or some other disinfect-
ant about the cellar walls and bins to re-
move the faint already there.
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A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man fed his pigs turnips from the first week
In July to the last of September, giving
them no other food They did well, grow
ing and keeping in fine condition. He
does not believe in cooking white turnips ;
steamed Swedes, with plenty of meal, are
good, but not so good, be thinks, as pota-
toes.
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Faithful unto Death.

1t is recorded of a certain chief of the
Macgregors, a Highland clan who had
warmly espoused the cause of the exiled
Stuarts, that when advancing under the
banner Of Charles Edward againstthe Eng
lsh troops at Preston Pans, in l7l2, he was
struck to the ground by two balls from the
enemy. The Macgregor clan, on seeing
their beloved chiettain fall, began to waver,
when the wounded captain instantly raised
himselfupon his elbow, and as the blood
streamed from his wounds, exclaimed aloud
81 am not dead, my children! l am look
ing at you, to see if YOU do your duty -
Thus, my young brethren, who are buck
ling on the armor of the gospel ministry,
as YOU go forth to battle with the hosts Of
darkness. if ever your hearts should faltel
or your faith give way, if ever your spirit
ual adyersarics should seem to gain a ten
porary advantage, remember that the Mas
ter whom YOU serve, and who is at once
your Saviour and your Captain-the grea
Captain of your salvation Is not dead
but alive, and that from the throne OF
high He is looking at you to see if you d,
your duty-Dr Dorling.
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Our good minister once said that if we
were so foolish as to let people laugh us
out of our religion, till at last we dropped
into hell, they could not laugh US out
again.
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A firm faith is one of the best divinities
good life is one of the best PHILOSOPHERS
clear conscience the best law; honesty the
only true policy; and temperance the besr
physic.
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wording, thou deridest to see a chris
tian melting at the word, trembling at a
sin; | tell thee he is of a noble carriage,
he can triumph in death and judgment. 1t
is not the king of fears that can appall
him, or hell itself that can alright him
but as a conqueror over both. he can leave
the world with a smile, % Death, where is
thy stingo O Hell where is thy victory -
That is his triumphant valediction and
farewell. But thou that gloriest so much
because thou canst silence conscience, and
OUTAGE sin; l tell thee thou art of base,
cowardly spirit; let but a little sickness
impair thy health or the thoughts of death
charge upon thy spirit, and what quick re-
treatings are these from thy bold resolu-
tons? What heaviness clouds thy looks
what terrors shake thy joints? what sad
ness sinks thy heart? so that fancy frights
thee, shadow startles thee. Nabal like
thy spirits die and sink within thee like a
stone. Wherefore jeer on; for my part !
hold it better to fear while God threatens
than to fall when God judgest"
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Nothing is so sure as death, and moth.
ing so uncertain as the time | NAV he toe
0 d to live, | can never be too young "a
die; will therefore live every hour as if
we're to die the next"
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The Stage Route from Barton to North Crafts
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one one ~ years old good drivers; also, Express
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0ti Barton, VT,
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