The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-10-25
Valuable Contribution.

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"To The Secretaries Of The A. b. c. +.
NJ.
"DfAR SlRs,-We respectfully ask your
acceptance of twenty of our best Cabinet
Organs, with recent mprovements.-
Resonant Cases for missionary uses.
ave offer this donation in sympathy
with the work, and also, as grateful ac-
knowledgement of the very liberal pat
ronage extended to US by the American
churches, in the wide introduction and use
Of our organs.
1.-The instruments will be delivered as
you may order them, carefully packed for
transportation to distant countries.
Very respectfully,
Your Obt servants.
Mason x HAMLIN ORGAN Co."
This is very timely present. The
value OF the donation amounts to between
$4,000 and 81, ,O0O-and becomes Of grea-
ter significance when coupled with the
fact, that Messrs. Mason & Hamin have
been unable to answer the cash orders for
their instruments for several years past
Much as music adds to worship at home,
it is Of greater value in the foreign field
in giving interest to thercligious services.
The instruments thus generously given,
will be placed in the seminaries and
training schools, at the principal stations
not already supplied. They will do much
not only to encourage the hearts and to
increase the influence of the missionaries
but to promote the "Service of song" in
many lands and languages. .Mjss;onary
Herad, Oct.
\ VAST GRoG,mar.-Bear me witness
II eSaggerate when | say, that the
country is one vast grogshop, TO which
nearly halfa million of its youth ale
yearly introduced, and over whose thres.
hold sixty thousand are annually carted
to drunhard's grave. The steeets of our
cities echo to the shouts and oaths of
drunken revel!rrs, tron whom society seeks
protection through police regulations and
within hovel and mansion alike, not en-
tirely smothered either by physical fear
or social pride, is heard the sound of in-
sane violence and wailing. What river
is there along our coast, what harbor upon
whose shores city stands, whose waters
have closed over the bodies of those who,
victims to this traffic, were flung by yio-
lent hands from pier or bridge, or madly
sought beneath their silent surface forget
fulness OF woes or wretchedness too prep-
nant to be borne? Within the da. kness
OF dungeons and along our highways, may
be seen wrecks of former beauty and
manhood wrought By this traffic, and now
and then one, as by miracle, after long
years Of misery and debasement, rescued
thereirom lifts up his voice in public, and
makes men agast with the recital of his
woes and degradation.-W W. II. Murray.
st. Dzier the attractive little French
town which the Germans have lately pill
laged, is on the right band of the Marne,
thlrty-hve miles southeast of Chalons. II
Is an ancient town and was once strongly
fortified but its ramparts are now laid
out as pleasure grounds. 1t had famous
old church, and handsome new town
house, Being at the head Of navigation
on the Marne, it had therefore, been busy
little place, where manufactures of vari-
Gus kinds have been carried on, and where
good deal Of commerce has entered. Al
though 1t was town likely to furnish the
rrussians with considerable boot. The
population numbered some $500. 1t was
at this town that Napoleon beat the Al.
liaa in fua bot.lo. 1Or.